Lamely provides a generic interface to show_stack() for those architectures which have an appropriate implementation. The alternative of course is to just take out Andrea's debug calls to show_stack(). But it would be nice to have an arch-independent way of spitting out a stack trace. ===================================== --- 2.4.19-pre6/include/linux/kernel.h~aa-100-dump_stack Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 +++ 2.4.19-pre6-akpm/include/linux/kernel.h Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 @@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ extern int oops_in_progress; /* If set, extern int tainted; extern const char *print_tainted(void); +extern void dump_stack(void); + #if DEBUG #define pr_debug(fmt,arg...) \ printk(KERN_DEBUG fmt,##arg) --- /dev/null Thu Aug 30 13:30:55 2001 +++ 2.4.19-pre6-akpm/lib/dump_stack.c Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +/* + * Provide a default dump_stack() function for architectures + * which don't implementtheir own. + */ + +#include +#include + +void dump_stack(void) +{ + printk(KERN_NOTICE + "This architecture does not implement dump_stack()\n"); +} --- 2.4.19-pre6/lib/Makefile~aa-100-dump_stack Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 +++ 2.4.19-pre6-akpm/lib/Makefile Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ L_TARGET := lib.a export-objs := cmdline.o dec_and_lock.o rwsem-spinlock.o rwsem.o rbtree.o -obj-y := errno.o ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o brlock.o cmdline.o bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o +obj-y := errno.o ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o brlock.o cmdline.o \ + bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o dump_stack.o obj-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK) += rwsem-spinlock.o obj-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o --- 2.4.19-pre6/kernel/ksyms.c~aa-100-dump_stack Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 +++ 2.4.19-pre6-akpm/kernel/ksyms.c Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 @@ -562,3 +562,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_task_union); EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock); EXPORT_SYMBOL(pidhash); + +/* debug */ +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_stack); --- 2.4.19-pre6/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~aa-100-dump_stack Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 +++ 2.4.19-pre6-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri Apr 5 01:07:48 2002 @@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ void show_stack(unsigned long * esp) show_trace(esp); } +/* + * The architecture-independent backtrace generator + */ +void dump_stack(void) +{ + show_stack(0); +} + void show_registers(struct pt_regs *regs) { int i;