On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:39 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > >> OK I understand. Yeah, it's always worked that way -- I don't recall > >> why other than the fact that by the time the address is displayed, the > >> function that does the display no longer has a handle on the beginning > >> address of the object, only the "requested" address, the slab it came > >> from, whether it's free/allocated, and whether it's sitting on a per-cpu > >> cache. I'll have to revisit that sometime... > > > > thanks for putting that on your todo list. > > > > > > so will you check in the patch soon? > > I'll queue it for the next release, whenever that is. Typically if nothing > serious breaks in the meantime, I do it about once a month. > thanks. > >>>> If you want to look at all of the objects in a slab represented > >>>> as data structures, you're going to have supply the knowledge of > >>>> what data structure they are. It's simple enough, just do a "kmem -S" > >>>> into a file, delete everything except the object addresses that you're > >>>> interested in, insert "struct whatever" in front of each address, save > >>> this is exactly what i did when i have to do work like this by using > >>> gawk, tr, and grep. > >>> > >>>> the file -- and run it as crash input file. > >>>> > >>> how to do this? i know crash -i can run a file at beginning. but how to > >>> run command in a file at any moment? > >>> > >> Enter "help input" -- where it talks about "<": > > > > > > thanks for the hint. you save me quite a lot key strokes! > > > > > > thanks again for all the help! > -- Ming Zhang @#$%^ purging memory... (*!% http://blackmagic02881.wordpress.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/blackmagic02881 -------------------------------------------- -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
