On Friday 09 September 2005 13:31, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:14:38PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > Ah, right. I'm using kdb with it. (And my recollection of when > > > show_stack did have a framepointer version, is that it was hopelessly > > > broken on interrupt frames, and we're much better off without it.) > > > > Not sure if the x86-64 kdb had code to follow them either. > > The i386 one has. > > x86_64 kdb does have the code to follow them, it's pretty much the same.
It will not work very well because the interrupt/exception etc. code makes no attempt to preserve the frame. So it's a bad hack at best. > > But kdb should be using a dwarf2 unwinder instead. kgdb certainly > > supports that, as does NLKD. > > In an ideal and bloat-neutral world. I've always imagined it to be > quite a lot of work, bringing in its own set of problems: but great > that that work has now been done, and yes, it might one day get > ported to kdb. But removing "&& !X86_64" is much easier. Hmm ok. I will do that change. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
