Re: [Crash-utility] enhance bt command

Ming Zhang wrote: >> 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? I'll queue it for the next release, whenever that is. Typically if nothing serious breaks in the meantime, I do it about once a month.

>>>> 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!