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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] changes about Call Trace:
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:22:11 +0100
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On Monday 16 January 2006 13:16, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> If I'm missing something, please let me know.
> 
> a) On x86-64 we get different Call Trace format than other architectures
>    when we get oops or press SysRq-t:
> 
>    <ffffffffa008ef6c>{:jbd:kjournald+1030}
> 
>    There is a architecture independent function print_symbol().
>    How about using it on x86-64? But it changes to:
> 
>    [<ffffffffa008ef6c>] kjournald+0x406/0x578 [jbd]

The x86-64 format is more compact.

> b) I can't find useful usage for the symbol size in print_symbol().
>    And symbolsize seems to be fixed when vmlinux or modules are compiled.
>    So we can calculate it from vmlinux or modules.
>    How about removing the field of symbolsize in print_symbol()?
> 
>    [<ffffffffa008ef6c>] kjournald+0x406 [jbd]

It's a double check that the oops is matching the vmlinux you're looking 
at.

-Andi

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