Re: kgdb in git-x86#mm review

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 10:34:01 EST


Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...] The kgdb code in git-x86#mm is right now is totally broken of
> course because the CFI annotations in assembler code are gone now,
> but they are needed for gdb use. [...]

This loss of CFI data is unfortunate for other potential consumers
too, such as systemtap, which intends to supplement its current stack
backtracing heuristics with CFI data.

- FChE
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