Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755513AbZA0VXF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:23:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752018AbZA0VWy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:22:54 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47929 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751133AbZA0VWx (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:22:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:22:39 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dave Anderson Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Bernhard Walle , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , crash-utility@redhat.com, Mike Snitzer Subject: Re: BISECTED: Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules? Message-ID: <20090127132239.7087b2f9@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1457226967.823651233090019084.JavaMail.root@zmail02.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> References: <952123357.823421233089955989.JavaMail.root@zmail02.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <1457226967.823651233090019084.JavaMail.root@zmail02.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 23 On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:19 -0500 (EST) Dave Anderson wrote: > > Actually it's not a problem with the vmlinux file, but rather with > kernel module object files. The crash utility has an embedded gdb > module which is invoked as "gdb vmlinux", and to get line numbers, > the crash utility simply uses the relevant built-in gdb function to > get them. And line numbers work fine with the base kernel code from > the vmlinux file. if the entire goal is to get a pinpoint of where the crash is, just using scripts/markup_oops.pl will do the right thing. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/