Re: [SLAB] __builtin_return_address use without FRAME_POINTER causesboot failure

[Manfred Spraul]

Christoph Lameter wrote:

> I kept getting boot failures in the slab allocator. The failure goes 
> away if one is setting CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. Seems that 
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB implies the use of __buildin_return_address() which 
> needs the framepointer.
>
>  
Very odd. __builtin_return_address(1) needs frame pointers, but slab 
only uses __builtin_return_addresse(0), which should always work.

--
   Manfred
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