Re: Oops / BUG? (2.6.17.2 on VIA Epia CL6000)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > something really bad happened (the processor jumped into hyperspace);
>> > however it looks like automatic symbol resolving isn't working;
>> > could you check if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is enabled in your kernel config?
>> > With that enabled, debugability tends to go up bigtime since at least
>> > the backtrace becomes human readable...
>> 
>> I have:
>> 
>> CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
>
>Hoi,
>
>hmmmmm then something really bad happened, so bad that even the
>backtrace is corrupted ;(

How about adding this one?
	CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
Compiling things without frame pointer on 
userspace (yes, userspace) makes debugging impossible, I wonder how the 
kernel can do it without FPs.
And if you got time on your hands
	CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO=y


Jan Engelhardt
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