[Libunwind-devel] is backtrace in Signal Handler possible on Linux x86_64?

[POKHARAKAR Sandeep]

Hello All,

 

Which is the latest stable version of libunwind available for Linux x86_64?

 

I had used this a year back to capture callstack of self thread. But now my requirement is slightly different.

 

In my project, I am having my own Signal handler for a particular Signal SIGUSR1. This Signal is being raised for each thread in the application periodically. so, the Signal handler is executed for each thread repeatedly after specific time interval.

 

Now, I want to call backtrace in the Signal Handler, it doesn’t work sometimes. Specifically, when there are calls like malloc/free (from standard linux library) on the callstack. I observed crash in backtrace.  (e.g.     backtrace()

<- SignalHandler()

<- malloc()

<- methodA()

<- threadA()

<- main())

 

I am thinking now to use libunwind library API() instead of backtrace() here. will it be supporting? Are there any specific compiler option settings to make this working?  

 

Please give me some hints on the problem.    

 

 

Thanks,

Sandeep Pokharakar

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