Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

I usually just compile a small program like

Just use scripts/decodecode and cat the Code line into that.

particularly good way to do it, and the old "ksymoops" program used to do 
a pretty good job of this, but I'm used to that particular idiotic way 
myself, since it's how I've basically always done it)

After that, you still need to try to match up the assembly code with the 
source code and figure out what variables the register contents actually 
are all about. You can often try to do a

	make the/affected/file.s

IMHO better is  

make the/file/xyz.lst        

which gives you a listing with binary data in there which can be
grepped for.

But you should install a very recent binutils because older objdump -S
couldn't deal with unit-at-a-time compilers.

-Andi