Hi,
"Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM, jasjit singh <singh.jasjit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> My question is how I can decipher the constant values that are added to
>> (perhaps) function pointers.
>> e.g 412 in {chrdev_open+412}.
>
> that's...IIRC.... the offset from the beginning of function.
>
>> Can these figures be actually helpful in getting what exactly caused kernel
>> to panic ?
>
> yes, just disassemble your vmlinux file...
>
If you have you kernel compiled with the debug enabled, then you can
do
objdump -S vmlinux
It will interleave the source with the compiled assembly
instructions. Very easy to locate the problem.
Regards,
Wenhua
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