Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

From: Zhao Forrest
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 06:10:53 EST


On 4/11/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 02:53 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up?
>
> cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other
> way around. But put_files_struct doesn't call do_exit,
> rather do_exit calls __exit_files calls put_files_struct.

I'm guessing its x86_64 which generates crap traces.

Yes, it's x86_64. Is there a reliable way to generate stack traces under x86_64?
Can enabling "[ ] Compile the kernel with frame pointers" help?
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