Re: [PATCH v3] scripts: add script for translating stack dump function

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:15:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> The only working (and fast) approach I could come up with was an ugly
> >> hack.  It assumes that start_kernel() is in init/main.c.
> >
> > That sounds entirely reasonable. Maybe somebody can come up with a
> > better and more general approach, but that sounds like a fine starting
> > point, and any incremental improvents can happen in the tree. So I'll
> > apply your patch (assuming it passes my basic testing, which I expect
> > it will).
> 
> Hmm. Would you mind if I change the
> 
>         addr2line -fpie $objfile $hexaddr | sed "s;$dir_prefix;;"
> 
> into
> 
>         addr2line -fpie $objfile $hexaddr |
>                 sed "s; at $dir_prefix\(\./\)*; at ;"
> 
> instead? There's two changes there: matching the " at " part (to just
> make the match stricter) but also matching any following "./" thing
> (which shows up for our include tree files, at least for me).
> 
> With that, all the cases I threw at it looked pretty good.
> 
> But the stricter matching might not matter, of course, and maybe there
> is some addr2line version that doesn't do that? So I'm checking here..

For some reason, I don't see the "./" for my include files.  But
regardless, your changes look good to me.

-- 
Josh