Backtraces with interrupts or signals seem unreliable, anyone else seen this?

Steven Dake sdake at mvista.com
Wed Jun 11 10:36:06 PDT 2003


x86, specifically a pentium4.


Keith Owens wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:08:13 -0700, 
>Steven Dake <sdake at mvista.com> wrote:
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>>It seems when an interrupt or signal occurs, which results in an 
>>exception frame (with frame pointers on), KDB has trouble decoding that 
>>frame properly when using the backtrace functionality.  If I get past 
>>the exception frame, the rest of the backtrace looks fine.
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>>Has anyone seen this behavior?  I am using KDB 4.1. 
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>Which architecture?  Every arch has different ways of decoding the
>frames.
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