Thank you Daniel for the links. Am using kernel-2.6.18-194.centosplus.el5 and dumpstack.c (under lib/dumpstack.c) implentation said simply "This architecture does not support dump_stack". Thanks, Sri. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>wrote:
Is there a way to find, in the kernel src tree, which routine/function is calling another function OR kernel function invocation stack order? This would be helpful for me to know the various steps/functionalities involved during executing something in kernel space.
At runtime you can use dumpstack() [1]. Otherwise, just for reading the code I suggest cscope [2].
thanks, Daniel.
[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c#L198 [2] http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
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