From: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@evision.ag>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cheap lookup of symbol names on oops()
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 03:01:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D409F7E.5080307@evision.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020725181126.A17859@infradead.org
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:00:33AM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
>
>>This is from the -atp (Aunt Tillie and Penelope) tree.
>>
>>This patch adds a small function that looks up symbol names that correspond
>>to given addresses by digging through the already existent ksyms table.
>>It's invaluable for debugging on embedded systems - especially when testing
>>modules - since ksymoops is a hassle to deal with in cross-build
>>environments. We already have this info in the kernel so we might as well
>>use it.
>>
>>This patch adds use of the function for PPC and i386.
>
>
> Wow! very usefull patch. O want it for 2.4 and 2.5, please.
Cool indeed! I wan't it too. Even if it doesn't give me the
precise information about where the stuff hung, it's allmost
always sufficient for me to see where it crashed around...
And far more convenient then RS232 console ore whatever in esp.
since it's sufficent in 90% of the cases I tend to trigger during
"experiments".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-26 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-25 17:00 [PATCH] cheap lookup of symbol names on oops() Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-25 17:21 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 18:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-07-25 20:16 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 19:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 20:27 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 20:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 21:05 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 22:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 22:05 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 22:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 23:01 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-26 22:37 ` module oops tracking [Re: [PATCH] cheap lookup of symbol names on oops()] Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-26 22:55 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-26 23:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-26 23:31 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-27 0:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-27 2:15 ` cort
2002-07-27 0:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-27 0:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-27 1:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-27 1:33 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-27 1:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 21:12 ` [PATCH] cheap lookup of symbol names on oops() Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-07-25 22:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-25 22:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-25 23:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-26 7:57 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207251941120.3086-100000@imladris.surriel. com>
2002-07-27 2:34 ` Stevie O
2002-07-25 22:39 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-26 1:01 ` Marcin Dalecki [this message]
2002-07-25 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-25 21:44 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 22:18 ` Russell King
2002-07-25 22:23 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-25 22:44 ` Rik van Riel
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