Re: [announce] kdump2gdb: analyze kdumps with gdb (well, almost)

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 09:33:34 EST


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:42:00PM +0200, Jean-Marc Saffroy wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Following earlier discussions on how nice it would be to use gdb on kdump
> cores, I took some time and wrote a small tool to do just that:
> http://jeanmarc.saffroy.free.fr/kdump2gdb/
>
> The main limitation is that there is absolutely no backtrace of
> non-running tasks yet, but I will try to see how it can be done. Also, it
> works only on x86-64, but people are welcome to contribute ports. :)

Hi Jean,

Interesting stuff. Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt already seems to
be containing various macros for seeing the back traces of non-running
threads. Won't these help?

-Vivek
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