Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>,
       Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:05, Steven Pratt wrote:
>  I gave this a try on the same setup that I am using for the regression 
> tests and the scheduler tests for Andrew.  What I got was the following 
> oops:

If you compile your kernel with debugging (-g) turned on, then you can
use addr2line on the vmlinux and the eip where it crashed.  That is
immensely useful in diagnosing oopses.  Guessing where
load_balance+0x257 is actually located is kinda hard.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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