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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Allan Graves <allan.graves@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] stack and scheduler patches
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:37:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906153704.GA5771@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509041351.32837.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:51:32PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> Also, what is the difference between your "stack trace" patch, which adds a 
> member to thread_struct, for each process, so I'd like a minimum of 
> justification, and one of the sysrq options which does exactly this?

What this does, and sysrq t doesn't, is allow you to put a breakpoint
on that show_regs call and force a particular thread back into
context.  Then you can poke around the stack with gdb.  You could so
this in tt mode, but not previously in skas mode, and people have
missed this.

				Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 23:06 [uml-devel] stack and scheduler patches Allan Graves
2005-09-02 16:59 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-04 11:51   ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-06 15:37     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-09-06 16:10     ` [uml-devel] sched and stack patch changelogs Allan Graves
2005-09-06 15:46   ` [uml-devel] stack and scheduler patches Allan Graves

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