From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lkcd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
lkcd-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net,
lkcd-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@aparity.com>
Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:08:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021031160800.M18072@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210311239430.2334-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:40:28PM -0800
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:40:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And imnsho, debugging the kernel on a source level is the way to do it.
>
> Which is why it's not going to be me who merges it.
>
> Read my emails.
That is one of the reasons that crash dumps are useful. Quite a few
problems that customers hit are not easy to reproduce, but when they
provide a dump file that can be loaded into gdb with the original
kernel debugging info and the backtrace command issued and various
bits of internal structures examined, usually a good hypothesis can
be made for the cause. Feed that back into a code audit and you end
up fixing problems that are decidedly challenging.
-ben
--
"Do you seek knowledge in time travel?"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-31 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-31 20:22 Andreas Herrmann
2002-10-31 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-31 20:54 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-10-31 21:08 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-31 22:04 ` Bernhard Kaindl
2002-11-01 0:33 ` Werner Almesberger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-02 10:36 Brad Hards
2002-11-02 19:28 ` [lkcd-devel] " Matt D. Robinson
2002-11-01 19:18 Linus Torvalds
2002-11-01 20:22 ` [lkcd-devel] " Matt D. Robinson
2002-11-02 13:02 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-01 6:36 Linus Torvalds
2002-11-01 7:00 ` [lkcd-devel] " Castor Fu
2002-10-31 22:47 Richard J Moore
2002-10-31 23:39 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-05 12:45 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-10-31 21:33 Rusty Russell
2002-11-01 1:19 ` [lkcd-devel] " Matt D. Robinson
2002-11-01 2:59 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-31 20:59 Dave Anderson
2002-11-01 1:25 ` [lkcd-devel] " Matt D. Robinson
2002-10-31 18:17 Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida
2002-10-31 17:25 Linus Torvalds
2002-10-31 21:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-31 22:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-05 11:42 ` [lkcd-devel] " Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-11-05 18:00 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-05 18:36 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-05 19:19 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-05 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-05 23:25 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-06 0:21 ` Andy Pfiffer
2002-11-06 1:10 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-06 1:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-06 2:05 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-07 6:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-07 12:17 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-06 4:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-06 4:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-06 19:24 ` Rob Landley
2002-11-10 18:35 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-06 2:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-06 4:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-06 6:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-06 6:38 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-11-06 7:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-06 9:11 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-11-06 22:05 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-11-06 16:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-07 8:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-07 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-09 23:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-09 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-10 1:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 2:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-10 2:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 3:03 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-10 3:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-10 16:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 3:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-10 4:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-11 18:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-09 23:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-10 2:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-10 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 1:31 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-10 3:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 3:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-10 3:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-10 2:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-10 2:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-10 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-07 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 18:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 21:21 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-11 16:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-31 15:46 Linus Torvalds
2002-10-31 19:33 ` [lkcd-devel] " Castor Fu
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