Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:08:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i pointed out how it should be done _much cleaner_ (and much smaller - > only a single patch needed) via stack-trace, without changing a dozen > architectures, and even gave a patch to make it all easier for you: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/19/568 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/88 > > in fact, a stacktrace printout is much more informative as well to > users, than a punny __builtin_return_address(0)!
Sorry lost track of this issue. Adding stracktrace support is not a trivial thing and will change the basic handling of vmallocinfo.
Not sure if stacktrace support can be enabled without a penalty on various platforms. Doesnt this require stackframes to be formatted in a certain way?
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