Re: [Crash-utility] enhance bt command

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 11:19 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > 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. > this is what it looks like 10078b2ba30: vprintk+498 .LC391+195657 10078b2ba40: 0000000000000471 [size-32] 10078b2ba50: 000000000000016e 0000000000000001 10078b2ba60: 0000000000000005 [kmem_cache] 10078b2ba70: 000000000000003c [size-1024] 10078b2ba80: [kmem_cache] 0000000000000000 10078b2ba90: 0000000000000001 00000000801108a1 [raw value: cache name] will be better

strangely, not all the value is correct. i am looking at it.