Re: show_regs on SMP

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:41:29 -0400 (EDT)


On 25 Jun 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > i was thinking it would be nice to have show_regs show the EIP and
> > call traceback for all processors in an SMP configuration, not just the
> > interrupted processor.
> >
> > perhaps the keyboard interrupt could instead trigger an IPI to all
> > processors in the configuration which causes them to dump their stack
> > frame on the console.
> >
> > comments? anyone already have a patch that does this?
>
> kdb can do this (http://reality.sgi.com/slurn_engr/)

except kdb is only for 2.2.3, and doesn't build (on my configuration, at
least). otherwise it looks like a very cool idea.

- Chuck Lever

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