From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: looking for help interpreting softlockup/stack trace
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:43:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807134323.GA15703@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4899F41C.5070401@avtrex.com>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:57:32AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>>> In the trace below, is "epc" the program counter at the time of the
>>> timer interrupt? How does "ra" fit into this, given that the
>>> function whose address it contains isn't seen in the stack trace
>>> until quite a ways down?
>>
>> $LBB378 is an internal symbol. The value of RA may not be very informative
>> if it was overwritten by a random subroutine call.
>>
>
> I have thought about eliminating these internal labels when the module's symbols are read. Would this make any sense?
I think so. Maybe that could even be done when the module is linked. I
don't think there are ever any relocations against these local symbols.
Thiemo?
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 18:25 looking for help interpreting softlockup/stack trace Chris Friesen
2008-08-05 19:11 ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-08-05 19:11 ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-08-05 21:38 ` Chris Friesen
2008-08-05 19:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-08-06 18:35 ` Chris Friesen
2008-08-06 18:57 ` David Daney
2008-08-07 13:43 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-08-07 14:19 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-08-07 21:57 ` David Daney
2008-08-05 20:28 ` Chad Reese
2008-08-05 20:46 ` Chris Friesen
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