Re: [Crash-utility] enhance bt command

> OK I understand. Yeah, it's always worked that way -- I don't recall > why other than the fact that by the time the address is displayed, the > function that does the display no longer has a handle on the beginning > address of the object, only the "requested" address, the slab it came > from, whether it's free/allocated, and whether it's sitting on a per-cpu > cache. I'll have to revisit that sometime... thanks for putting that on your todo list. so will you check in the patch soon?

>>> If you want to look at all of the objects in a slab represented >>> as data structures, you're going to have supply the knowledge of >>> what data structure they are. It's simple enough, just do a "kmem -S" >>> into a file, delete everything except the object addresses that you're >>> interested in, insert "struct whatever" in front of each address, save >> this is exactly what i did when i have to do work like this by using >> gawk, tr, and grep. >> >>> the file -- and run it as crash input file. >>> >> how to do this? i know crash -i can run a file at beginning. but how to >> run command in a file at any moment? >> > Enter "help input" -- where it talks about "<": thanks for the hint. you save me quite a lot key strokes! thanks again for all the help!