linux-kernel - Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information

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Message-ID: <20080321205559.GC3509@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:55:59 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information


* Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:

> > the best i found for lockdep was to include a fair number of them, 
> > and to skip the top 3. struct vm_area that vmalloc uses isnt 
> > space-critical, so 4-8 entries with a 3 skip would be quite ok. (but 
> > can be more than that as well)
> 
> STACKTRACE depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT which is not available on all 
> arches? alpha blackfin ia64 etc are missing it?

one more reason for them to implement it.

> I thought there were also issues on x86 with optimizations leading to 
> weird stacktraces?

at most there can be extra stack trace entries. This is for debugging, 
so if someone wants exact stacktraces, FRAME_POINTERS will certainly 
improve them.

	Ingo
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