Re: [RFC] HOWTO find oops location

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 04:12:22 EST


On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:53:06AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is this draft HOWTO useful? Comments?

Looks very nice. One small niggle:

> EIP is at prune_dcache+0x147/0x1c0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Let's try to find out where did that exactly happened.
> Grep in your kernel tree for prune_dcache. Aha, it is defined in
> fs/dcache.c! Ok, execute these two commands:
>
> # objdump -d fs/dcache.o > fs/dcache.disasm
> # make fs/cache.s

you mean 'make fs/dcache.s' here, I believe.

Cheers,
Muli
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