Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:36:21 +0300 | From | Eli Cohen <> | Subject | Re: sysrq shows impossible call stack |
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Roland Dreier wrote:
> Eli> Hi, I am exsperiencing a hang, probably caused by a deadlock, > Eli> so I can do sysrq commands. However I can see that in some > Eli> cases the exspected call stack has some functions in between > Eli> as if two call stack are interleaved. > >Hi Eli, > >I think what you are seeing is old values left on the stack. If a >function allocates space for local variables but bumping the stack >pointer, but then never actually uses those variables, then old values >including old return addresses may be left in the stack. > > - Roland > > Thanks Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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