Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753279AbYLaAYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:24:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752270AbYLaAYP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:24:15 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:36790 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752170AbYLaAYO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:24:14 -0500 To: david@lang.hm Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: early exception error From: Andi Kleen References: Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:25:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:21:10 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87k59hur5f.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 20 david@lang.hm writes: > > doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the > error returns nothing This might be obvious, but you can't grep directly for these addresses because System.map contains the starting addresses of functions only and normally the reported address is somewhere in the middle of a function. So you instead have to look for the highest number lower or equal the address from the exception. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- 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/