Re: stack dumps, CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and i386 (was Re: sysrq showsimpossible call stack)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 21 2004 - 18:50:28 EST


Adam Litke <agl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:41, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Adam> This problem was annoying me a few months ago so I coded up
> > > > Adam> a stack trace patch that actually uses the frame pointer.
> > > > Adam> It is currently maintained in -mjb but I have pasted below.
> > > > Adam> Hope this helps.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, that looks really useful. What is the chance of this moving
> > > > from -mjb to mainline?
> > >
> > > Good, but it needs to be updated to do the right thing with 4k stacks when
> > > called from interrupt context.
>
> The show_trace() for the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER case will now be called
> the same way as the existing code.

I still don't see any code in there to handle the transition from the
interrupt stack page to the non-interrupt stack page in the 4k-stacks case?

> This brings up a question though.
> It doesn't appear to me that anyone is actually calling
> show_trace_task() yet. Am I missing something or should we change all
> the callers of show_trace() to use show_trace_task()?

You're right - we've killed off all of its callers. Neat. I shall
administer the coup de grace.

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