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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] qemu-gdb: add functionality for inspecting
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] qemu-gdb: add functionality for inspecting core dumps |
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Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:14:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:02:51AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Currently it is very hard to inspect coroutine in core dumps, because
> none of the qemu-gdb functionality works. Fixing this is not really
> possible because "bt" only works on the core dump's stack pointer and
> program counter, but the situation would improve noticeably if only
> a coroutine's stack pointer and program counter were accessible at all;
> that would allow inspecting the coroutine's stack and building a
> stack trace from the hex dump of the stack.
>
> The main hurdle is that glibc_pointer_guard() cannot be run on a core
> dump, because get_fs_base() uses the arch_prctl system call. The first
> patch modifies that to use the gdb API instead. The second and third
> patch then add the new functions.
>
> Paolo
>
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
> qemu-gdb: allow using glibc_pointer_guard() on core dumps
> qemu-gdb: extract parts of "qemu coroutine" implementation
> qemu-gdb: add $qemu_coroutine_sp and $qemu_coroutine_pc
>
> scripts/qemu-gdb.py | 3 ++
> scripts/qemugdb/coroutine.py | 90
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block
Stefan