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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@lvl7•com>
To: frowand@mvista•com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: question regarding a call stack from an oops message
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:44:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA9FC24.5EA92B93@lvl7.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CA9F79A.99F5D00B@mvista.com


Cool!  Thanks.  I reran ksymoops, and as it turns out the Letext below turns
into do_page_fault, so that fits well.  That will come in handy, and it answers
question number 2.

Thanks again. Any thoguhts on the first question :) ?
Neil

Frank Rowand wrote:
>
> Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > Hello all!
> >         If anyone has a moment, I've got a question regarding the attached oops
> > message.  On the platform we are debugging we get this occasional oops message
> > (attached).  It doesn't start in any one point from the application code, but
> > the lower half of it (from sys_read down) is always identiacal. Specifically I'm
> > interested in the following snippet:
> > >Trace; c00202d4 <handle_mm_fault+6c/100>
> > >Trace; c0009e3c <Letext+190/3cc>
> > >Trace; c00029a8 <ret_from_except+0/34>
> > >Trace; c02e6e94 <END_OF_CODE+19a49c/???
> > >Trace; c002397c <do_generic_file_read+260/48c>
>
> > Questions:
> > 1) Can anyone think of any other theories that might cause this END_OF_CODE
> > stack frame behavior?
> > 2) Regarding the Letext stack frame: I see this often as well, and I'm a little
> > puzzled.  Is its appearance to be expected.  I expected to see after a
> > ret_from_except stack frame a link to one of the memory management handler
> > routines (do_page_fault, etc), but I don't.  For my own education, what is that
> > Letext line?
>
> If you look in System.map you should see that each address for which an Letext
> entry also has another entry with a valid name.
>
> You can get better symbols in your stack trace if you do something like:
>
>   mv System.map System.map.OLD
>   grep -v Letext System.map.OLD >System.map
>
> -Frank
> --
> Frank Rowand <frank_rowand@mvista•com>
> MontaVista Software, Inc
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-02 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-02 14:25 question regarding a call stack from an oops message Neil Horman
2002-04-02 18:25 ` Frank Rowand
2002-04-02 18:44   ` Neil Horman [this message]

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