Re: JWW SPAM-bad-from [Crash-utility] enhance bt command

Ming Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:19 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> I'm not sure whether cluttering the bt -f command output would >> be all that worthwhile, but I'm thinking that this request may have >> some merit with respect to the "rd" command. Currently the >> "rd -s" option recognizes and translates kernel symbols that it >> finds in the raw memory output. Maybe something like a "-S" >> option could do that -- plus also recognize kernel virtual memory >> addresses that come from the slab cache, and alternatively display >> the slab cache namestring in some recognizable manner, i.e. bracketed, >> or something like to that effect. >> >> Then since "bt -f" displays the block of memory associated with >> each stack frame, you could easily transfer the stack address >> to a "rd -S [stack-address] [count]" command. > > yes. it will be great if we can have a rd -S! > Apply the attached patch and see what you think. The "rd -S" option supplements "-s" by also recognizing memory from slab caches -- and alternatively displaying the slab cache name in brackets.

Thanks, Dave