From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:36:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:28856 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28575446AbYHFSg3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:36:29 +0100 Received: from zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com (zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com [47.129.230.89]) by zrtps0kp.nortel.com (Switch-2.2.6/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id m76IaJI02096; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:36:20 GMT Received: from [47.130.64.42] ([47.130.64.42] RDNS failed) by zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:36:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4899EF0E.705@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:35:58 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: looking for help interpreting softlockup/stack trace References: <48989AFE.5000500@nortel.com> <20080805191618.GB8629@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20080805191618.GB8629@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2008 18:36:17.0773 (UTC) FILETIME=[506159D0:01C8F7F3] Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 20130 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: cfriesen@nortel.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > $LBB378 is an internal symbol. The value of RA may not be very informative > if it was overwritten by a random subroutine call. What determines which function names get compiled into the object file, and which ones get these numerical symbols? > You may also try lockdep; it gives much more detailed information though > it's more heavyweight. I would love to be able to use lockdep...however I'm stuck on an old kernel. Chris