Ingo,
It appears you already did a
thread-aware coredump
back in Oct 2002:
http://lwn.net/Articles/12035/
Your patch appears to dump the registers for all task.
What happen with your idea?
-piet
> Hey Guys:
>
> I've been using kgdb for a while with our 2.6.12 and now 2.6.16 kernel
> as well as kdump/kexec with our 2.6.16 kernel. I'm a bit disappointed
> with the visibility of local variables on the threads/tasks not currently
> running on CPUs. Both crash, and the gdb macros that you guys wrote,
> show the most important stuff but I'd prefer to be able to see everything
> with gdb/ddd as I can with kgdb; including all local variables and formal
> parameters at each stack frame.
>
> A long time ago I used gdb on SunOS 4.1.4 and use to simply set $fp
> and $sp from the saved information in the U-block to view a process.
> I wish gdb would allow be to run your macros, btt for example, and
> extract
> the stackp from task.thread.esp assign it temporally to $sp for the
> current task,
> do the backtrace command and see everything. Changing $sp and $fp for
> a while
> like I use to do with gdb on SunOS 4.1.4 and then using ddd+gdb to
> browse the
> stack formals and locals would be nice. Just doing a 'set write on'
> isn't sufficient,
> gdb wants a process and I can't see to satisfy it with simply setting
> the current
> thread.
>
> I was wondering if any of you guys have been thinking of anything like
> this
> and had and hacks or ideas on how to see the locals and formals for
> all tasks.
>
> One thought I had was a minor hack of the kexec code to do something
> like your gdb macros
> and walk thru the task list and then append a ELF Notes, like done by
> crash_save_this_cpu(),
> for each task. I have no idea if gdb has a limit on the number of
> elf_prstatus structures
> that can be provided. I suppose I'd leave it a KEXEC config variable
> to enable this, as
> some would argue that it's not as save as simply saving the regs for
> the active CPUs.
> This would leave 'info threads' with gdb similar to 'ps' with crash
> and virtually identical
> to the experience with kgdb.
>
> -piet
>
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