[Crash-utility] Re: BISECTED: Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:19 -0500 (EST)
Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> 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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