Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules? [Was: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact]

Ingo Molnar
2009-01-10T23:23:51Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned, digital cameras have been more useful than
> kernel dumps to kernel debugging.

Yes, especially ones with VGA video capture. (I caught a
"oops+triple-fault" crash via that trick once, which was not
serial-console capture-able and which was just a single frame in the 25
fps video of the incident.)

Ingo