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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ak@muc.de, linas@austin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:27:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7283.1058740039@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:31:37 MST." <20030720063137.3b0f2e14.davem@redhat.com>

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:31:37 -0700, 
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:55:18 +1000
>Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>
>> i386 provides no unwind data
>
>We could tell gcc to emit dwarf2 unwind tables on x86 for debugging
>kernel builds.

C code is not really an issue.  Most of the unwind complexity is
handling the special case asm code, interrupt handlers, out of line
lock contention paths, anything in entry.S.  Much of the IA64 asm code
has explicit unwind directives in the asm code, i386 asm would need
equivalent kernel changes.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-20 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <aJIn.3mj.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-18 20:43 ` KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels? Andi Kleen
2003-07-19  0:31   ` linas
2003-07-19  0:57     ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-20 12:55   ` Keith Owens
2003-07-20 13:31     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-20 22:27       ` Keith Owens [this message]
2003-07-21 15:06     ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-29 19:44   ` Robin Holt
2003-08-13  4:40   ` Martin Pool
2003-08-13 11:04     ` Andi Kleen
2003-08-25 12:16       ` Greg Stark
2003-08-25 16:23         ` Andi Kleen
2003-08-26 13:39           ` Greg Stark
2003-08-27 13:49           ` Alan Cox
2003-08-30 10:35             ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-02 20:40 Tolentino, Matthew E
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-28 17:08 Tolentino, Matthew E
2003-08-28 20:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-18 20:06 linas

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