Re: [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:42:59PM +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote: > > > But as of now there are few issues with "gdb bt" > > 1) Sometimes the no. of stack frames displayed doesn't end for a long time > and also the "q" command doesn't work as desired once the screen is full. > The workaround is to give some limiting count like "gdb bt 10". > I tried gdb ver 6.1 externally (outside crash) also and see the same > long ending stack frames where as the latest gdb (ver 6.4), works fine. So > just wondering if you are planning to upgrade embedded gdb to ver 6.4? > > 2) As unlike crash, there is no concept of tasks in gdb, we can only see the > backtraces for tasks active at the time of crash. I guess, we will continue to have both the backtracing mechanisms. I am assuming that this approach does not disable crash's bt mechanism. Its kind of add on? So a user can use crash bt mechanism for backtraces of tasks which are not currently running on some cpu.