On Friday 25 March 2005 14:38, Jonathan S. Romero wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out what subsystem is causing kernel stack > overflows. I attempted to apply the patch that baisorblade sent me, but > I found that the current patchset I was using already had that > particular change made. > > Patch sent to me by Baisorblade > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.4/2.4.27-1um/patches/ >stack-overflow > > Had the change already, in one of these two > uml-patch-2.4.24-1base.patch.bz2 > uml-2.4.27-bs1 > > So the stack overflow panic is coming from somewhere else. Can you also post the complete output and command line you used? Just to look at it and see if it's anything known. > What i'm going to go ahead and do is copy the guest over to an identical > system with X Windows, so that I can pop up xterms for debugging all on > one screen. > > I will look into kgdb as well, thanks for the heads up. If I debug from > inside the guest, I will use it. For what I know, KGDB is not supported for UML (yes, the architecture must provide some support). And you use kgdb from another machine, connected through a serial or ethernet connection (I'm not too sure about the 2nd option). > If I end up working from the outside, > i'll just use regular GDB.
> You are also definately right about the huge time investment, GDB > definately is taking some getting used to. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
