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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Eli Cohen <mlxk@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysrq shows impossible call stack
Date: 20 Apr 2004 09:26:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ekqizkd2.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <408545AA.6030807@mellanox.co.il>

    Eli> Hi, I am exsperiencing a hang, probably caused by a deadlock,
    Eli> so I can do sysrq commands. However I can see that in some
    Eli> cases the exspected call stack has some functions in between
    Eli> as if two call stack are interleaved.

Hi Eli,

I think what you are seeing is old values left on the stack.  If a
function allocates space for local variables but bumping the stack
pointer, but then never actually uses those variables, then old values
including old return addresses may be left in the stack.

 - Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-20 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-20 15:45 sysrq shows impossible call stack Eli Cohen
2004-04-20 16:26 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-04-20 17:36   ` Eli Cohen
2004-04-20 17:51     ` stack dumps, CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and i386 (was Re: sysrq shows impossible call stack) Roland Dreier
2004-04-20 20:26       ` Adam Litke
2004-04-21  0:12         ` Roland Dreier
2004-04-21  1:39           ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-21  1:41             ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-21 23:28               ` Adam Litke
2004-04-21 23:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-22 18:25                   ` Adam Litke

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