Hi, Tao and Alex
Thank you for working on this.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM <devel-request(a)lists.crash-utility.osci.io>
wrote:
 Date: Fri,  3 Jan 2025 18:48:14 +1300
 From: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
 Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH v1 2/5] Call cmd_bt silently after
         "set pid"
 To: devel(a)lists.crash-utility.osci.io
 Cc: alexey.makhalov(a)broadcom.com
 Message-ID: <20250103054817.364053-3-ltao(a)redhat.com>
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 Cmd bt will list multi-stacks of one task. After we "set <pid>" switch
 context to one task, we first need a bt call to detect the multi-stacks,
 however we don't want any console output from it, so a nullfp is used for
 output receive. The silent bt call is only triggered once as part of task
 context switch by cmd set.
 A array of user_regs pointers is reserved for each supported arch. If one
 extra stack found, a user_regs structure will be allocated for storing regs
 value of the stack.
 Co-developed-by: Alexey Makhalov <alexey.makhalov(a)broadcom.com>
 Co-developed-by: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
 Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
 ---
  arm64.c        |  4 ++++
  crash_target.c |  5 +++++
  gdb-10.2.patch |  2 +-
  kernel.c       | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
  ppc64.c        |  4 ++++
  x86_64.c       |  3 +++
  6 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 diff --git a/arm64.c b/arm64.c
 index 1cdde5f..8291301 100644
 --- a/arm64.c
 +++ b/arm64.c
 @@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ struct user_regs_bitmap_struct {
         ulong bitmap[32];
  };
 
I have no more comments about the patchset, only two things:
[1]  This was defined in various architectures such as X86 64, aarch64 and
ppc64, can it be defined in a common file and included with define macros
such as "#if defined(X86_64) || defined(ARM64) || defined(PPC64)"?
+#define MAX_EXCEPTION_STACKS 7
 +ulong extra_stacks_idx = 0;
 +struct user_regs_bitmap_struct *extra_stacks_regs[MAX_EXCEPTION_STACKS] =
 {0};
 +
 
And also add code comments to say why it(max exception stacks) is 7.
[2] build warning
cc -c -g -DX86_64 -DLZO -DGDB_10_2  kernel.c -I./gdb-10.2/bfd
-I./gdb-10.2/include -Wall -O2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-fstack-protector -Wformat-security
kernel.c:12009:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘silent_call_bt’
[-Wmissing-prototypes]
12009 | void silent_call_bt(void)
      |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 static inline bool is_mte_kvaddr(ulong addr)
  {
         /* check for ARM64_MTE enabled */
 diff --git a/crash_target.c b/crash_target.c
 index c5ad1df..8cfa744 100644
 --- a/crash_target.c
 +++ b/crash_target.c
 @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ extern "C" int crash_get_current_task_reg (int regno,
 const char *regname,
  extern "C" int gdb_change_thread_context (void);
  extern "C" int gdb_add_substack (int);
  extern "C" void crash_get_current_task_info(unsigned long *pid, char
 **comm);
 +#if defined (TARGET_X86_64) || defined (TARGET_ARM64) || defined
 (TARGET_PPC64)
 +extern "C" void silent_call_bt(void);
 +#endif
  /* The crash target.  */
 @@ -164,6 +165,10 @@ gdb_change_thread_context (void)
    /* 3rd, refresh regcache for tid 0 */
    target_fetch_registers(get_current_regcache(), -1);
    reinit_frame_cache();
 +#if defined (TARGET_X86_64) || defined (TARGET_ARM64) || defined
 (TARGET_PPC64)
 +  /* 4th, invoke bt silently to refresh the additional stacks */
 +  silent_call_bt();
 
This looks tricky, but I have no idea for the time being, maybe we can
improve it in the future.
Other changes are fine to me.
Thanks
Lianbo
+#endif
    return TRUE;
  }
 diff --git a/gdb-10.2.patch b/gdb-10.2.patch
 index c867660..7baa925 100644
 --- a/gdb-10.2.patch
 +++ b/gdb-10.2.patch
 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ exit 0
   # your system doesn't have fcntl.h in /usr/include (which is where it
   # should be according to Posix).
  -DEFS = @DEFS@
 -+DEFS = -DCRASH_MERGE @DEFS@
 ++DEFS = -DCRASH_MERGE -DTARGET_${CRASH_TARGET} @DEFS@
   GDB_CFLAGS = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(srcdir)/config \
         -DLOCALEDIR="\"$(localedir)\"" $(DEFS)
 diff --git a/kernel.c b/kernel.c
 index 8c2e0ca..1c8f500 100644
 --- a/kernel.c
 +++ b/kernel.c
 @@ -12001,3 +12001,23 @@ int get_linux_banner_from_vmlinux(char *buf,
 size_t size)
         return TRUE;
  }
 +
 +#if defined(X86_64) || defined(ARM64) || defined(PPC64)
 +extern ulong extra_stacks_idx;
 +extern void *extra_stacks_regs[];
 +void silent_call_bt(void)
 +{
 +       FILE *fp_save = fp;
 +       fp = pc->nullfp;
 +
 +       for (int i = 0; i < extra_stacks_idx; i++) {
 +               FREEBUF(extra_stacks_regs[i]);
 +               extra_stacks_regs[i] = NULL;
 +       }
 +       sprintf(pc->command_line, "bt\n");
 +       argcnt = parse_line(pc->command_line, args);
 +       optind = 1;
 +       cmd_bt();
 +       fp = fp_save;
 +}
 +#endif
 \ No newline at end of file
 diff --git a/ppc64.c b/ppc64.c
 index 7ac12fe..532eb3f 100644
 --- a/ppc64.c
 +++ b/ppc64.c
 @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ struct user_regs_bitmap_struct {
         ulong bitmap[32];
  };
 +#define MAX_EXCEPTION_STACKS 7
 +ulong extra_stacks_idx = 0;
 +struct user_regs_bitmap_struct *extra_stacks_regs[MAX_EXCEPTION_STACKS] =
 {0};
 +
  static int is_opal_context(ulong sp, ulong nip)
  {
         uint64_t opal_start, opal_end;
 diff --git a/x86_64.c b/x86_64.c
 index 53ae3ef..e544be8 100644
 --- a/x86_64.c
 +++ b/x86_64.c
 @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ struct user_regs_bitmap_struct {
         ulong bitmap[32];
  };
 +ulong extra_stacks_idx = 0;
 +struct user_regs_bitmap_struct *extra_stacks_regs[MAX_EXCEPTION_STACKS] =
 {0};
 +
  /*
   *  Do all necessary machine-specific setup here.  This is called several
   *  times during initialization.
 --
 2.47.0