Thank you Robert, pc is program counter, and yes i686 with kernel 2.4.26. what values in /dev/kmem. On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:02 -0500, FD wrote: > > > how can I find the context switch values (pc, psw, reg) for a process > > for example if I need to get process #1 init values? > > is there a function in c that can do that? thanks > > It is architecture-dependent. > > If task is the task_struct of the process in question, on i386 > task->thread->eip is the instruction pointer (what you mean by "pc" > above I presume). > > Other processor state is in task->thread. See asm-i386/processor.h for > i386. > > The registers are stored on the stack. See arch/i386/kernel/entry.S. > > Robert Love > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
