Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:30:37 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/8] Series to improve the x86 backtracing code |
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> this patch series improves the x86 backtracing code in the following ways: > 1) Fix a bad bug in x86 (32 bit) FRAME_POINTER backtracing (2.6.24 material) > 2) Add the capability to mark a backtrace entry as reliable / unreliable > 3) Change the x86 (32 bit) FRAME_POINTER backtracing to use the normal backtrace but use the frames > as guidance to the reliability of the backtrace entries > 4) Patch to capture the EBP register earlier in the backtrace callchain to get a better FRAME_POINTER > based backtrace > 5) Split the x86 (64 bit) backtrace code up similar to the 32 bit code by turning a macro into a function > 6) Enable FRAME_POINTER backtracing on 64 bit similar to the 32 bit patch in number 3 > 7) Add a simple self-test module for backtraces (will move to tests/ later when that gets merged) > 8) Add the feature to x86 64bit to print a set of bytes prior to the current EIP in the Code: line > (already present in 32 bit)
thanks, i've applied your new series to x86.git. (Note that i had to move around some of the changes to make the series bisectable.)
Ingo
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