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-<PRE>
-To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
-Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
-From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
-Subject: [uml-devel] Re: stack trace
-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:36:06 -0500
-
-mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca said:
-> Can you post (on list or web site) a "script" output of you trying to
-> get the right stack out of a stuck uml (tracing myself)...?
-
-Yup. Here we go...
-
-Here, I attach to the tracing thread and get the stack of the current thread,
-which happens to be the idle thread.
-
-um 1013: gdb linux 14936
-GNU gdb 5.0rh-5 Red Hat Linux 7.1
-Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
-welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
-Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
-There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
-This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
-/home/jdike/linux/2.4/um/14936: No such file or directory.
-Attaching to program: /home/jdike/linux/2.4/um/linux, process 14936
-0xa014efe9 in __wait4 ()
-
-# This is how you get the current task in the tracing thread - get_current()
-# only works in a kernel thread.
-(gdb) p (struct task_struct *)cpu_tasks[0].task
-$2 = (struct task_struct *) 0xa01c0000
-
-# Get the host pid of that task.
-(gdb) p $2.thread.extern_pid
-$3 = 14939
-
-# Get the current ip and sp.
-(gdb) shell cat /proc/14939/stat
-14939 (linux) T 14936 14936 883 34816 14936 64 5 3 806 7 62 12 0 0 9 0 0 2
-588043 142770176 5008 4294967295 2684358656 2686348640 3221223520 2686205764
- sp ^^^^^^^^^^
- 2685727185 73728 201392128 167776768 268444672 3222308129 0 0 17 0
-ip ^^^^^^^^^^
-
-# the sp and ip are items 4 and 5 after the 4294967295 (on 2.2 hosts, that's
-2^31 - 1 rather than 2^32 - 1).
-
-(gdb) p/x 2686205764
-$4 = 0xa01c3f44
-(gdb) p/x 2685727185
-$5 = 0xa014f1d1
-
-# Where's the ip?
-(gdb) i sym 0xa014f1d1
-nanosleep + 17 in section .text
-
-# look at the stack around the sp
-(gdb) x/32x 0xa01c3f30
-0xa01c3f30 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xa01c3f60 0xa00020a8
-0xa01c3f40 : 0x00000004 0xa012e891 0xa01c3f58 0xa01c3f58
-0xa01c3f50 : 0xa01c3f70 0xa0023667 0x00000009 0x3b023380
-0xa01c3f60 : 0xa01c3fa0 0xa012a21d 0x0000000a 0xa01c0000
-0xa01c3f70 : 0xa01c3fa0 0xa012a213 0x00000003 0x00000024
-0xa01c3f80 : 0xa01c3fa0 0xa0011bc4 0xa012b25c 0x00000000
-0xa01c3f90 : 0xa01c3fb0 0x00000000 0xa01c3ffc 0x0000000d
-0xa01c3fa0 : 0xa01c3fb0 0xa000c50e 0xa01812e0 0xa01c3ffc
-
-# The trick here is to locate a frame near the current sp. You're looking
-# for a consecutive pair of longwords (fp, ip) having the properties that:
-# fp is on the current kernel stack and points further up it
-# ip is a text address (if you can't recognize a UML text address by
-# sight, print out &_stext and &_etext)
-#
-# Starting at 0xa01c3f44, the first pair of works satisfying these requirements
-# is at 0xa01c3f50.
-# So, print that pair out as hex.
-(gdb) p/x *((int (*)[2])0xa01c3f50)
-$9 = {0xa01c3f70, 0xa0023667}
-
-# Now, we start climbing the stack.
-(gdb) p/x *((int (*)[2])$[0])
-$10 = {0xa01c3fa0, 0xa012a213}
-(gdb)
-$11 = {0xa01c3fb0, 0xa000c50e}
-(gdb)
-$12 = {0xa01c3fc0, 0xa000356d}
-(gdb)
-$13 = {0xa01c3fd0, 0xa013082f}
-(gdb)
-$14 = {0xa01c3ff0, 0xa012fbdd}
-# Stop when you see a NULL frame pointer or gdb bitches at you.
-(gdb)
-$15 = {0x0, 0xa01513aa}
-
-# Now we get the symbolic version of the stack with 'i sym' of the second item
-# in each pair.
-(gdb) i sym 0xa0023667
-check_pgt_cache + 23 in section .text
-(gdb) i sym 0xa012a213
-cpu_idle + 123 in section .text
-(gdb) i sym 0xa000c50e
-rest_init + 46 in section .text
-(gdb) i sym 0xa000356d
-start_kernel + 361 in section .text.init
-(gdb) i sym 0xa013082f
-start_kernel_proc + 63 in section .text
-(gdb) i sym 0xa012fbdd
-signal_tramp + 209 in section .text
-(gdb) i sym 0xa01513aa
-thread_start + 4 in section .text
-
-# You can also get line number information with 'i line'.
-(gdb) i line *0xa012a213
-Line 488 of "process_kern.c" starts at address 0xa012a213 <cpu_idle+123>
- and ends at 0xa012a21d <cpu_idle+133>.
-(gdb)
-
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