Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Schubert <> | Subject | Re: frame unwinder patches | Date | Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:19:21 +0200 |
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On Thursday 04 September 2008 19:29:36 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:46:52 +0200 > > Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > up to 2.6.22 the -mm series had these nice frame unwinder patches, > > which gave beautiful stack traces. Unfortunately these frame unwinder > > patches seem to have been dropped :( > > > > Anyone still maintaining updated patches? > > > > Probably all the "?" lines shouldn't be printed. > > printing the ? lines is the result of a compromise between getting the > most reliable information out of a stack trace, and getting a useful > data for the case where not everything is going as well as it should. > > not printing the ? would be trivial (for some backtraces we do that), > but so far hasn't been seen as desirable because you lose information > in those hard-to-debug cases when you need anything you can get from > the backtrace.
I see your point, but in most cases it is rather annoying.
Bernd
-- Bernd Schubert Q-Leap Networks GmbH
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