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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops tracing and /proc
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:42:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309054228.GB2531@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110346587.7123.14.camel@mindpipe>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:36:27AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
 > I am trying to decode an Oops per the instructions in
 > Documentation/oops-tracing.txt.  The instructions say to run it through
 > ksymoops with the "-k /proc/ksyms" argument.
 > 
 > But, I do not have this file!  The closest thing I have
 > is /proc/kallsyms.  ksymoops complains that it does not understand the
 > syntax of this file.
 > 
 > What am I doing wrong?

If you have CONFIG_KALLSYMS enabled, you don't need ksymoops
as the backtrace gets decoded to symbol names for you.

The only use for ksymoops in a 2.6 kernel is probably the
disassembly of the Code: line.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/

		Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09  5:36 Oops tracing and /proc Lee Revell
2005-03-09  5:42 ` Dave Jones [this message]

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