question about oops and panic

[anish singh]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Parmenides <mobile.parmenides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. I think oops and panic are both some way to deal with errors occurs
> in kernel space. Is there any relationship between them?
AFAIK both are same.
>
> 2. I make a NULL pointer reference deliberately in a kernel module and
> get an oops like:
>
> ... ... ...
>
> Aug 29 00:58:45 lfs kernel: Call Trace:
> Aug 29 00:58:45 lfs kernel:  [<c100112d>] ? do_one_initcall+0x44/0x120
> Aug 29 00:58:45 lfs kernel:  [<c10517ce>] ? sys_init_module+0xa7/0x1d9
> Aug 29 00:58:45 lfs kernel:  [<c138d49d>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>
> ... ... ...
>
> I wonder what is the meaning of the tow numbers after a function name.
They are offsets in the function name from which next function in the call
stack is called right ?
>
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