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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic show_stack facility
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:06:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020329160618.A25410@phoenix.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020329152314.A22333@phoenix.infradead.org> <15524.35903.821173.784043@napali.hpl.hp.com>

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:46:07AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Christoph, why do you think the prototype for ia64 is different?

I have stopped to wonder why ia64 does things differently.

>  It's
> because it *has to be*.  In general, you can't do a backtrace without
> having the full (preserved) state of the CPU at the point of which the
> backtrace begins.

So your suggestion is to move the other architectures to the ia64 prototype
or to not have an architecture-independand stack-traceback facility at all?

	Christoph


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-29 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-29 15:23 Christoph Hellwig
2002-03-29 15:46 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-29 16:06   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-03-29 17:08     ` David Mosberger
2002-03-29 17:16       ` arjan
2002-03-29 18:25         ` David Mosberger
2002-03-30 10:06           ` Kai Henningsen
2002-03-29 17:36       ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-29 18:26         ` David Mosberger
2002-03-29 18:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-03-29 18:41           ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-30  3:05 Keith Owens
2002-03-30  3:31 ` Andrew Morton

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