Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't pretend that non-framepointer stack tracesare reliable

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 03:46:30 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From f460ce92e09770691855b98a904556e92d39ead9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:20:20 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't pretend that non-framepointer stack traces are reliable
>
> without frame pointers enabled, the x86 stack traces should not
> pretend to be reliable; instead they should just be what they are:
> unreliable.
>
> The effect of this is that they have a ? printed in the stacktrace,
> to warn the reader that these entries are guesses rather than known
> based on more reliable information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/debug, thanks Arjan!

Ingo
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