From: "Dan Noé" <dpn@isomerica.net>
To: Adrian Sud <pigsflew2008@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Parsing Structures postmortem from memory dump
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:37:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4820DDA0.1030100@isomerica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4820ABA5.3020705@gmail.com>
Adrian Sud wrote:
> I've looked at /include/linux/sched.h and tried to understand the
> task_struct structure, but it appears to be variable-length, determined
> at compile time, and I can't tell exactly how these are stored
> throughout memory--In a list? a tree?
The task_struct structures are stored on one or more lists. Note the
list_head types within the structure - each of this is a list that the
structure is (potentially) a member of.
This is a good explanation of how the kernel's lists work:
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists
I don't know if a generalized printer/parser exists for the kernel
linked list, but this might be a good way to start exploring your
project. There are macros to traverse the lists easily, so it shouldn't
be too difficult.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Dan
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