Re: 2.6.31-07068-g43c1266 Early boot exception

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 19:26:19 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Tony Vroon wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 14:52 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> Can you please do l on the above rip - ffffffff81598250?
>>> I was unable to:
>>> (gdb) l *ffffffff81598250
>>> No symbol "ffffffff81598250" in current context.
>>
>> Ah... you should have done l *0xffffffff81598250.
>>
>
> A better way to do this is:
>
> addr2line -e vmlinux 0xffffffff81598250
>
> No need to involve gdb.

Neat. I usually keep gdb open as a calculator w/ C syntax, so I've
never looked for other stuff but this is much better for bug
reporters. Thanks.

--
tejun
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