Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crash(s)?

From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 01:47:51 EST


> >| >make fs/dcache.s
> >|
> >| Aha! Voila!! It doesn't work in the "fs" subdir, but back out to
> >| the top of the src tree and it works just fine. Duh...
> >
> >Right, it needs the top-level makfile and kbuild machinery to do
> > that.
> >
> >| Now, I must confess that what I'm looking at in those two files is
> >| the .s is the source assembly that would normally be fed to gas,
> >| and the objdump'ed version is the dissed object translated back to
> >| gas source. If no mistakes, they should be pretty close to the
> >| same I'd think. Am I on the right track? Or full of it?
> >
> >Yes, right.
>
> Which?
>
> Right track, or full of it? :-)
>
> In any event, I could send those two files along if you'd like, I'm
> not an assembly guru on "amd/intel" chips, not even in my wildest
> dreams .

Send them, along with oops.

BTW, compile 'oops-hunting' kernels with frame pointers in the future
(I just compile all my kernels with it).
--
vda
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