linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stack2core: show stack message and convert it to core file when kernel die

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:24:53 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Hui Zhu <teawater@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	saeed bishara <saeed.bishara@...il.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Chris Dearman <chris@...s.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <Paul.Gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Coly Li <coly.li@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stack2core: show stack message and convert it to core
 file 	when kernel die

On 01/04/2010 08:14 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Whichever one works but s2c wouldn't require symbol decoding.  Maybe
>> we can simply add an option to tell it to just parse the oops and
>> output it in machine friendly format.  Oh, also, the patch does add
>> new information the module load addresses.  We should be able to add
>> those to the oops message in a compact form.
> 
> actually one does not need those; you know the start address of the
> function already from the current oops output, and since you know the
> address of the function within the module as well, you know the start
> address of the module.

Right.  Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
tejun
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