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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:24:28 +0100
From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
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To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
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Subject: Re: How provoke call stack trace
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Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:38:39PM +0100, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> 
> 
>>   Is there any function which can be used by module to just 
>>investigate some given call path?
> 
> 
> Assuming 2.6, call dump_stack(). If you want greater flexibility,
> investigate show_trace() and friends. 
> 
> Hope this helps, 

   I'm sitting right now on 2.4.22 - so no 2.6 nicities.
   I actually wanted to have something like this on ppc - but ppc has no 
dump_stack() implemented.

   Thanks any way.

   [ Just checked 2.6 - ppc has dump_stack() now. Nice. It looks like 
all archs have implemented it in 2.6. Cool. ]

-- 
Ihar 'Philips' Filipau  / with best regards from Saarbruecken.
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