Re: C aggregate passing (Rust kernel policy)

Steven Rostedt
2025-02-26T17:46:54Z

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:41:30 -0500
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:

> It's been awhile since I've looked at one, I've been just automatically
> switching back to frame pointers for awhile, but - I never saw
> inaccurate backtraces, just failure to generate a backtrace - if memory
> serves.

OK, maybe if the bug was bad enough, it couldn't get access to the ORC
tables for some reason. Not having a backtrace on crash is not as bad as
incorrect back traces, as the former is happening when the system is dieing
and live kernel patching doesn't help with that.

>
> When things die down a bit more I might be able to switch back and see
> if I get something reportable, I'm still in bug crunching mode :)

Appreciate it.

Thanks,

-- Steve