Re: [patch 0/8] Series to improve the x86 backtracing code

2008-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > this patch series improves the x86 backtracing code in the following ways: I heartily approve of this series. Good jorb. Especially the fact that you also fixed x86-64, which has been a total disaster in this area. Linu

Re: [patch 0/8] Series to improve the x86 backtracing code

2008-01-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this patch series improves the x86 backtracing code in the following ways: > 1) Fix a bad bug in x86 (32 bit) FRAME_POINTER backtracing (2.6.24 material) > 2) Add the capability to mark a backtrace entry as reliable / unreliable > 3) Change the x86

[patch 0/8] Series to improve the x86 backtracing code

2008-01-11 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Hi, this patch series improves the x86 backtracing code in the following ways: 1) Fix a bad bug in x86 (32 bit) FRAME_POINTER backtracing (2.6.24 material) 2) Add the capability to mark a backtrace entry as reliable / unreliable 3) Change the x86 (32 bit) FRAME_POINTER backtracing to use the norma