Re: 2.2.14pre5: kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int ...

Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:22:47 +0100


"Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI" wrote:
>
> On 19 Nov 99 at 07:32 Manfred wrote:
> > > Hmm... nice! Is there a way to get a stacktrace without forcing an oops?
> > Several architectures have a 'show_stack()' function (eg
> > dik_show_trace() on alpha)
> > Unfortunately, i386 doesn't have that function.
> Hi,
> I missed original posting, so I write it here to the list.
> I'm using this patch for matroxfb debugging version - it prints
> CPU registers and call stack at the time of call to printstate()

Yes, I use a similar function. But obviously the result is not portable,
I always
remove these calls before submitting a patch to Linus.
IMHO a {printstate(),show_trace(),...} function that is supported by all
architectures would be a Good Thing(tm).

--
	Manfred

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