On Wed, Oct 12, Keith Owens wrote:
> There is kdba_verify_rw(), I can always add a kdba_verify_r() function
> as well.
The ppc64 version of kdba_verify_rw looks broken, not very
stackfriendly.
> >I will add such a check to kdba_bt_stack_ppc now. How do other archs
> >deal with 'bt 72' (which should have been 'btp 72')?
>
> ia64 does not allow bt <address>, because of the strange ia64 unwind
> data. Other architectures such as i386 and x86_64 just use the
> address, if it is invalid then you get an oops, kdb recovers from the
> oops and continues.
I checked xmon, and it appears to works the same way. Apparently
something in that area is not properly implemented in the ppc64 part of
kdb.
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