Re: [Crash-utility] user defined symbol

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:57 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I wonder if it possible to have this feature - user defined symbol. >> >> for example, define inode1 = 0x1234 >> >> then in all place has this 0x1234 in bt or rd command, show inode1 >> instead of numeric value, >> >> This should be very helpful when these value pop up in a haystack of >> numeric values... >> >> Thanks >> > Why not just pipe the relevant command to grep to pin-point the > locations of the value you're tracking? > > I know it's tempting, but creating a crash command/option for > specific kernel-debug cases would soon become overwhelming. > So I'm not particulary excited about this suggestion; maybe > others would be... understood. > BTW, as you requested earler, I've got the "kmem -s <address>" > output changed such that the base address of the object is shown > instead of the <address> argument which may be offset into the > slab object. With CONFIG_SLUB kernels, that's how it currently > works, although I'm also fixing "kmem -S" and "kmem -s address" > failures to handle some 2.6.25 kernel changes to SLUB object > free-list tracking. And there still appears to be more > SLUB-related churn being proposed on LKML on the horizon. cool. where i can get this updated code? > Dave