Re: Intepreting an oops

[Bob Copeland]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter Hallberg wrote:
>>
>> How does one translate the offset in the function to a line number in the
>> source code?
>> [  218.418473] Call Trace:
>> [  218.418484]  [] :nnpfs:nnpfs_writepage+0xab/0x230
>>
>
> You can use 'objdump -Sr nnpfs.ko' and look for the address of
> nnpfs_writepage, plus 0xab.

I use the above sometimes, also you can do:

gdb nnpfs.ko
gdb> l *(nnpfs_writepage+0xab)

Documentation/oops-tracing.txt has some helpful tips.

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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