From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Unwind problem for __attribute__ noreturn
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:53:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005311@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005303@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:24:23 -0800, Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> said:
Jim> I do not know what the kernel uses the unwind info for. This
Jim> question has been asked on this list by others recently and has
Jim> not been answered.
The kernel uses unwind info for a number of things:
- to generate backtraces to aid debugging; kdb uses this
but we also use it in a number of other places where
we want to print a backtrace
- to obtain the register values of "preserved" registers from
"earlier" call frames
- to reconstruct the user-level values of the "preserved"
registers (e.g., this is used for ptrace() and when
creating a core dump)
Please let me know if this doesn't answer your question.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-21 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-20 2:10 [Linux-ia64] Unwind problem for __attribute__ noreturn Keith Owens
2001-03-21 0:24 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 6:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21 6:53 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2001-03-21 7:12 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 7:54 ` David Mosberger
2001-03-21 8:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21 17:54 ` David Mosberger
2001-03-21 18:48 ` Cary Coutant
2001-03-21 19:07 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 19:13 ` David Mosberger
2001-03-21 19:13 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 19:26 ` Cary Coutant
2001-03-21 19:40 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 19:58 ` David Mosberger
2001-03-21 20:00 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 20:38 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-21 22:54 ` David Mosberger
2001-03-21 23:42 ` Cary Coutant
2001-03-22 17:00 ` Rich Altmaier
2001-03-23 20:28 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-24 0:58 ` Cary Coutant
2001-03-24 1:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-24 1:37 ` Jim Wilson
2001-03-26 22:06 ` DE-DINECHIN,CHRISTOPHE (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
2001-03-26 22:58 ` Cary Coutant
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