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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Expand memblock=debug to provide a bit more details (v1).
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 10:35:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA95976.9050900@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120504192459.GA5684@phenom.dumpdata.com>

On 05/04/2012 12:24 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>
>> that RET_IP is not very helpful for debugging.
> 
> Is there a better way of doing it that is automatic?
>>

It depends on what "it" is.  You could do a full stack backtrace, or use
__builtin_return_address(N).

	-hpa

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 18:49 [RFC PATCH] Expand memblock=debug to provide a bit more details (v1) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-04 18:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] memblock: Add _THIS_IP off the caller to memblock debug statements and size in kB Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-04 18:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] bootmem/sparsemem: Have a new __alloc_bootmem_node_high Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-04 19:22 ` [RFC PATCH] Expand memblock=debug to provide a bit more details (v1) Yinghai Lu
2012-05-04 19:24   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-08 17:35     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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