Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:55:11 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to
	traditional
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> Subject: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to traditional
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid to 
> do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up and 
> prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still print 
> a decent backtrace.
> 
> This patch changes the backtracer to fall back to the non-framepointer 
> backtracer if the EBP value isn't within the expected range; so on 
> weird stack corruption cases we get at least something out...

thanks, applied. Another nice catch!

	Ingo
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