Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm3 dies in LTP on amd64

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 05:40:38 EST


>Not very useful. Something double faulted, but it's not on the stack
>[I wonder if the stack walker over double faults is broken. Jan - did you
>ever test that after you redid the walker?]

Maybe not specifically for a double fault, but I'm certain I checked it for some of the IST ones; looking at the code I
also can't see anyting obviously wrong. But clearly, a double fault has its most likely reason being a bad kernel stack
pointer prior to a page (or other) fault. It would therefore be necessary to know the value of the stack pointer as
retrieved from the double fault stack, which with the current display logic is not possible.

Jan
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