Re: BISECTED: Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 16:23:05 EST


On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:19 -0500 (EST)
Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Actually it's not a problem with the vmlinux file, but rather with
> kernel module object files. The crash utility has an embedded gdb
> module which is invoked as "gdb vmlinux", and to get line numbers,
> the crash utility simply uses the relevant built-in gdb function to
> get them. And line numbers work fine with the base kernel code from
> the vmlinux file.


if the entire goal is to get a pinpoint of where the crash is, just
using scripts/markup_oops.pl will do the right thing.

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