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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:55:11 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to traditional * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote: > Subject: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to traditional > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> > > The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid to > do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up and > prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still print > a decent backtrace. > > This patch changes the backtracer to fall back to the non-framepointer > backtracer if the EBP value isn't within the expected range; so on > weird stack corruption cases we get at least something out... thanks, applied. Another nice catch! Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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