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Subject: Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops
	callsites to make them patchable
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:08:00 -0800
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:23:52 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Well it causes additional problems. We had some cases where it was really
> hard to distingush garbage and the true call chain.

yes, for some reason the naive backtraces seem to have got messier and mess=
ier over
the years and some of them are really quite hard to piece together nowadays.

An accurate backtrace would have some value, if we can get it bullet-proof.

The fault-injection driver wants it too.  And lockdep, I guess.