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To: Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>
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Subject: Re: frame unwinder patches
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:13:58 +0200
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Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> up to 2.6.22 the -mm series had these nice frame unwinder patches, 
> which gave beautiful stack traces. Unfortunately these frame unwinder patches
> seem to have been dropped :(
>
> Anyone still maintaining updated patches?

The SUSE kernel rpm should have an uptodate set

(ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/HEAD ) 

I agree that they were much better than the current unwinder,
also they didn't require slowing down the kernel with 
frame pointers.

-Andi