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Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:37:18 +0200
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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To: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
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Subject: Re: [SLAB] __builtin_return_address use without FRAME_POINTER causes
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Christoph Lameter wrote:

>I kept getting boot failures in the slab allocator. The failure goes 
>away if one is setting CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. Seems that 
>CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB implies the use of __buildin_return_address() which 
>needs the framepointer.
>
>  
>
Very odd. __builtin_return_address(1) needs frame pointers, but slab 
only uses __builtin_return_addresse(0), which should always work.

--
    Manfred