----- "Sumeet Gupta" <meetsumeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Dave Anderson < anderson@xxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > ----- "Sumeet Gupta" < meetsumeet@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It was my mistake. > > > > During an earlier debugging, I set verbose=1, misinterpreting it to > > mean just a few debug prints. > > What do you mean by that? Where are you setting "verbose"? > > I was talking about the file x86.c, function x86_kvtop, around line > 2622, where it returns from the function, or not, depending upon > verbose. If the purpose of verbose in this function is only to have > more fprintfs, then the behaviour should not change based on this > argument. I had (to see whats going on in this function,) set the > verbose flag in it to 1. This caused the recursion in function calls I > mentioned. > Ah, OK -- now I get it... Yes -- the purpose of the "verbose" flag in x86_kvtop() is not to just have more debug fprintfs, but rather it is *only* used when the virtual-to-physical translation is being requested by the "vtop" command -- which verbosely walks through and displays the page table data. Thanks, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
