linux-kernel - Re: BISECTED: Re: source line numbers with x86

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Message-ID: <20090127132239.7087b2f9@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:22:39 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	crash-utility@...hat.com, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: BISECTED: Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules?

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:19 -0500 (EST)
Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually it's not a problem with the vmlinux file, but rather with
> kernel module object files.  The crash utility has an embedded gdb
> module which is invoked as "gdb vmlinux", and to get line numbers,
> the crash utility simply uses the relevant built-in gdb function to
> get them.  And line numbers work fine with the base kernel code from
> the vmlinux file.


if the entire goal is to get a pinpoint of where the crash is, just
using scripts/markup_oops.pl will do the right thing.

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