On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:32:46AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] The kgdb code in git-x86#mm is right now is totally broken of > > course because the CFI annotations in assembler code are gone now, > > but they are needed for gdb use. [...] > > This loss of CFI data is unfortunate for other potential consumers > too, such as systemtap, which intends to supplement its current stack > backtracing heuristics with CFI data.
They seem to have reverted these patches now, so that problem is gone. Yes there are a couple of other consumers of CFI too, like crash or the out of tree (but not dead) in kernel unwinder. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
