Re: Expect defunct, kill -9 panics kernel?

> Right, now here's a bit of really useful detective work:
> 
> In the same piece of disassembly can you see what happens to %r26 ...
> the first argument to __wake_up_common() which is the wait queue?  It
> may be clobbered, but if it isn't by the time we fault we know that
> 0x45f10250 is the address of the wait queue.  If we're incredibly lucky,
> it's a symbol in the vmlinux, can you see if it is (and if it's valid)?

In the code I'm looking at, r26 is copied to r7 near the beginning of
__wake_up_common().  r7 is 0 in the register dump.  Of course, Carlos'
kernel may differ.

Dave
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