Re: How to get stack from every thread when doing crash dump?

From: Howard (howardsue_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/24/05

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    Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:39:04 +0800
    To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
    
    

    2005/6/24, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>:
    >
    > On Jun 23, 2005, at 3:20 AM, Xin LI wrote:
    >
    > > One problem with the mini-dump is that, since the mini-dump utilizes:
    > > dump_write((char *)curthread->td_kstack, curthread->td_kstack_pages *
    > > PAGE_SIZE);
    > >
    > > To write out the stack, and at the point before exception.S, curthread
    > > has
    > > been changed, we can only obtain the stack from the current thread,
    > > which
    > > may not be enough for analyzing the backtrace. What can we do to
    > > improve
    > > this situation?
    >
    > You can iterate over all the threads. Take a look at
    > src/sys/kern/subr_kdb.c
    > or
    > src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/kthr.c
    >
    > In particular:
    > Use the list of all processes (allproc) to iterate over the
    > processeses and for each process walk the list of threads
    > and for each thread dump the stack, registers and other data.

     However is dumping the td_kstack_pages enough to get one thread's stack? We
    found the stack is not completed.
     Thanks,
     

    --
    > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net 
    > 
    >
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