Re: getunwind syscall

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:28:10PM -0500, J. Johnston wrote:
> More info from David.

So the getunwind syscall returns data from the gate DSO?  I was under
the impression it was some register backing store, or similar.  In that
case Roland's patches for the same issue on x86 should be persued
instead of using the syscall.


> 
> -- Jeff J.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> >>>>>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:20:13 -0500, "J. Johnston" 
> >>>>><jjohnstn@redhat.com> said:
> 
>   >> Nothing which involves a syscall is acceptable in a tdep file.
>   >> That's what the t means - target support.
> 
>   Andrew> Is this information available via /proc?  In a core file?
> 
> The unwind info for the Linux kernel does get included in the
> core-dump (see Roland McGrath's work on this), but it is not available
> via /proc.  Note that in the future, it won't be necessary to do a
> syscall.  Instead, the kernel's unwind info will be available (to the
> running process) via dl_iterate_phdr().  I'm not sure though how this
> is supposed to be made accessible to programs such as gdb.
> 
> 	--david
> 
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer