Re: [PATCH] generic show_stack facility

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:23:14 +0000, Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> said:

  Christoph> This patch adds a prototype for show_stack to sched.h and
  Christoph> exports it.  Andrea's VM updates want this, as does Tux
  Christoph> and I think it's a facility we want to proive genericly.

  Christoph> Note that some architectures (e.g. ia64) have a
  Christoph> conflicting prototype and some (e.g. sparc) don't have
  Christoph> show_stack at all, but I think -pre5 is early enough in
  Christoph> the 2.4.19 cycle to let the maintainers fix it.

  Christoph> Could you apply the patch to your tree?

Please don't.  The patch is broken.

Christoph, why do you think the prototype for ia64 is different?  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.

	--david