Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:48:49 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > i pointed out how it should be done _much cleaner_ (and much > > smaller - only a single patch needed) via stack-trace, without > > changing a dozen architectures, and even gave a patch to make it > > all easier for you: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/19/568 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/88 > > > > in fact, a stacktrace printout is much more informative as well to > > users, than a punny __builtin_return_address(0)! > > Sorry lost track of this issue. Adding stracktrace support is not a > trivial thing and will change the basic handling of vmallocinfo. > > Not sure if stacktrace support can be enabled without a penalty on > various platforms. Doesnt this require stackframes to be formatted in > a certain way?
it doesn't.
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