Re: [discuss] [PATCH] allow CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER for x86-64

[Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>]

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509091208350.6247@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 at 12:14:38 +0100 (BST), Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > It won't give more accurate backtraces, not even on i386 because show_stack
> > doesn't have any code to follow frame pointers.
> 
> Ah, right.

What's this for, then? (arch/i386/kernel/traps.c line 116)


static inline unsigned long print_context_stack(struct thread_info *tinfo,
                                unsigned long *stack, unsigned long ebp)
{
        unsigned long addr;

#ifdef  CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
        while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, (void *)ebp)) {
                addr = *(unsigned long *)(ebp + 4);
                printk(" [<%08lx>] ", addr);
                print_symbol("%s", addr);
                printk("\n");
                ebp = *(unsigned long *)ebp;
        }
#else


I get nice clean stack traces on i386 with frame pointers enabled and
the kernel is smaller as well.

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Chuck
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