Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:12:40 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>,
       Ali Akcaagac <aliakc@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel OOOPS in 2.6.11.6
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:27:01PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> i386 needs unwind data plus a kernel unwinder to get accurate
> backtraces.  Without the data and an unwinder, i386 backtraces are
> best guess.  They often contain spurious addresses, from noise words
> that were left on the kernel stack.  Nothing to do with
> CONFIG_4K_STACKS.

XFS will break sometimes with 4K stacks on x86
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