On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:57 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I wonder if it possible to have this feature - user defined symbol. > > > > for example, define inode1 = 0x1234 > > > > then in all place has this 0x1234 in bt or rd command, show inode1 > > instead of numeric value, > > > > This should be very helpful when these value pop up in a haystack of > > numeric values... > > > > Thanks > > > > Why not just pipe the relevant command to grep to pin-point the > locations of the value you're tracking? > > I know it's tempting, but creating a crash command/option for > specific kernel-debug cases would soon become overwhelming. > So I'm not particulary excited about this suggestion; maybe > others would be... understood. > > BTW, as you requested earler, I've got the "kmem -s <address>" > output changed such that the base address of the object is shown > instead of the <address> argument which may be offset into the > slab object. With CONFIG_SLUB kernels, that's how it currently > works, although I'm also fixing "kmem -S" and "kmem -s address" > failures to handle some 2.6.25 kernel changes to SLUB object > free-list tracking. And there still appears to be more > SLUB-related churn being proposed on LKML on the horizon. cool. where i can get this updated code? > > Dave -- 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
