I believe I saw a way to track this down on http://kerneltrap.com/ you may want to look there. Justin -----Original Message----- From: Lei Yang [mailto:leiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:29 AM To: Piszcz, Justin Michael; Kernel Newbies Mailing List Subject: Re: What is EIP? Thank you! What about the address following EIP? How can I go to that address and figure out what is wrong with the code? EIP is at main+0x15a/0x220 [test_lei] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is the address position in the code? Lei Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote: > %EIP - Instruction Pointer > This holds the address of the next CPU instruction to be executed, > and it's saved onto the stack as part of the CALL instruction. As well, > any of the "jump" instructions modify the %EIP directly. > > How to debug I am not sure. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lei Yang > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:52 AM > To: Kernel Newbies Mailing List > Subject: What is EIP? > > Hi there, > > I am building a very simple kernel module and got it installed with > insmod, however, I found the following dmesg, > > Aug 30 10:33:41 bijar kernel: EIP is at main+0x15a/0x220 [test_lei] > Aug 30 10:33:41 bijar kernel: [__crc_blk_stop_queue+2031862/4569723] > make_clo_request+0x1be/0x3cd [test_lei] > Aug 30 10:33:41 bijar kernel: [<f955d63e>] make_clo_request+0x1be/0x3cd > > [test_lei] > > And as expected, it is not working. > > Could anybody tell me what this "EIP" is? How can I debug? > > TIA > Lei > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
