Re: [PATCH v3] scripts: add script for translating stack dump function

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One caveat with #5 (relative path names).  Looking at DW_AT_comp_dir
> wouldn't work, because that's the *object* directory, not the source
> directory.
>
> The only working (and fast) approach I could come up with was an ugly
> hack.  It assumes that start_kernel() is in init/main.c.

That sounds entirely reasonable. Maybe somebody can come up with a
better and more general approach, but that sounds like a fine starting
point, and any incremental improvents can happen in the tree. So I'll
apply your patch (assuming it passes my basic testing, which I expect
it will).

                Linus