On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:27:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > It would be nice to have a full-kernel-stack backtrace printout as an > > option, which prints entries 'above' the current RSP. > > One problem with that is that it is likely to be mostly overwritten by > the debug code that is about to print this all out - and any non-debug > code may well be really old, just with a sufficiently deep stack trace > to show up. Not to mention missing any irq-stack changes etc anyway. > > So it can easily be *very* misleading - I'm not sure how useful it > would be as an idea. > > Linus
So if the unwider doesn't run with the same stak than the target, it migh work. This can work with BUG for example But I believe that WARN doesn't do a trap in x86. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/