Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261278AbVARNP7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:15:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261291AbVARNP7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:15:59 -0500 Received: from galaxy.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.162.31]:17301 "EHLO galaxy.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261278AbVARNPv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:15:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:16:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Tigran Aivazian X-X-Sender: tigran@ezer.homenet To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , Arjan van de Ven , Jan Hubicka , Jack F Vogel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050114205651.GE17263@kam.mff.cuni.cz> <1105955608.6304.60.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <41EBFF87.6080105@zytor.com> <41EC224D.5080204@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1538 Lines: 36 Sorry, it was a "red herring", namely my module's Makefile still had "-mregparm=0" in CFLAGS, so that is why kdb showed it's arguments correctly (and then paniced on the way out). So we still have to deal with DWARF2 data then... Ok, will look into it. Kind regards Tigran On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Tigran Aivazian wrote: >> I already solved this paricular problem. And the solution is (but don't >> tell me you knew it, for then why didn't you tell anyone) simply --- >> compile the kernel with -g and that includes enough debug information to be >> able to decode the stack content correctly. And yes, kdb does show the >> correct argument values now. No changes to kdb are necessary and no need to >> do the work with dwarf2 implementation etc etc. > > actually I am very surprized that it worked (because looking at the code I > concluded that it should NOT). So I need to retest in all cases to make sure > this is not a coincidence but a solid fact... > > Kind regards > Tigran > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/