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From: Uma shankar <shankar.vk@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: accessing stack of non-current task
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:30:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s2i448a67a1004200700n4242a936tbaf4df2b4c710ab2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100420134322.GM20640@cmpxchg.org>

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:08:14PM +0530, Uma shankar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible for the kernel to access the user-stack data of a
>> task different from "current" ? ( This is needed for stack-dump as
>> well as backtrace. )
>
> Yes, have a look at __get_user_pages() in mm/memory.c.
>

Yes,  I understand this.

But  have a look  at  "void show_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
unsigned long *sp)  "  in traps.c (  arch specific  ).

Is there a implicit assumption that  "tsk"  and "current"  are threads
sharing same  "mm_strct"  ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-20 12:38 accessing stack of non-current task Uma shankar
2010-04-20 13:43 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20 14:00   ` Uma shankar [this message]
2010-04-20 17:16     ` Johannes Weiner

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