On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 02:03:58PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > For the non-kallsyms case we _could_ also just make the '%pB' format > add the [<>] markers back in case somebody still uses the user-space > kallsyms script that looks up hex numbers. > > Right now the hex numbers are not only useless in stack dumps (since > you can't look up symbols using them anyway thanks to randomization), > they are noise that makes the stack traces harder to read. So let's > just remove them?
I actively disable KASLR on my dev box and feed these hex numbers into addr2line -ie vmlinux to find where in the function we are. Having the option to make %pB generate them works for me.
