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SubjectRe: sched.c: why -fno-omit-frame-pointer?

* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
> >
> > Is the -fno-omit-frame-pointer still required for some reason, or is
> > this a relict that could be removed?
>
> It's needed so that the WCHAN /proc display can backtrace one level up
> out of schedule()

it's not just one level - we'll back out until we are in scheduler
functions (up to 16 levels). So it will back out of io_schedule() and
other functions as well.

Ingo
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