From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: cebbert@redhat.com, jeremy@goop.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kaos@ocs.com.au,
xyzzy@speakeasy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:01:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725.150139.104063215.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A7B46C.9020007@zytor.com>
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:37:00 -0700
> Another useful extension was a variant of __builtin_trap() which would
> create a dummy ELF relocation for the trapping instruction with a target.
That would be very useful.
Another idea that has been tossed around is to build with dwarf2
debugging, scan a pre-linked kernel image for conditional trap
instructions, and use the dwarf2 info to reconstruct the file and line
number information into the table of BUG entries. Then perform the
final link and strip the dwarf2 debugging info out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-25 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 15:39 Al Viro
2007-07-24 16:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 17:14 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 18:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 19:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 20:04 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 21:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 2:31 ` Trent Piepho
2007-07-25 2:50 ` Keith Owens
2007-07-25 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 6:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 6:29 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 6:50 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-07-25 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:25 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 19:35 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 19:28 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:26 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:35 ` David Howells
2007-07-25 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 20:29 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-25 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 22:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-07-25 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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