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From: linas@austin.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:31:17 -0500
To: Tameen Khan <tameen@cisco.com>
Cc: "'Benjamin Herrenschmidt'" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"'linuxppc-dev list'" <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	hbabu@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: stack frame for interrupts/exceptions in PPC
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:41:32AM -0700, Tameen Khan wrote:
>
> > > > I am tryting to implement kernel backtracing for PPC.
> >
> > What do you mean ? There is already working backtrace code in
> > the kernel, both in the Oops code and in xmon.

and KDB too...

> Did not know that. Am new to linux and ppc.
> I'm porting lkcdutils for PPC. It picks up a kernal core dump and among
> other things has to generate backtraces from it.

You may want to talk to Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
who I beleive is also working LKCD on PPC64

--linas

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