On 2/16/26 9:26 AM, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2026, at 21:19, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>
>> The ovs-parse-backtrace script was supposed to be used for parsing the
>> output of 'ovs-appctl backtrace' command. But that command was
>> removed back in 2013 while making OVS thread-safe. The script itself
>> is also not even compatible with python3 (some decoding of byte objects
>> is missing).
>>
>> We could've fixed it and adjusted to parse out backtraces from the
>> logs instead, but a simple grep with addr2line can do a very similar
>> job, e.g.:
>>
>> grep -o '^0x[0-9a-f]*' ./ovs-vswitchd.log \
>> | xargs addr2line -a -f -s -p -e $(which ovs-vswitchd)
>>
>> Also, GDB is generally more useful for this task, but that would be a
>> complete re-write of the script that no-one have used for 13 years.
>> We can just add a new one if we ever need it. For now, just remove
>> the broken script and clean up the mentions of it.
>>
>> Fixes: 94f3e5269e93 ("timeval: Remove backtrace feature.")
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks for the cleanup, it looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>
Thanks! Applied.
We could technically backport this, but it doesn't seem important.
Can backport later if necessary.
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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