From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: jim.houston@comcast.net
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] allow switching stacks
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404E2745.2090405@gnu.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20040319000900.MGqq4K-DigABQ3Rw1YUiCVpQtWjsAo0aYjcFLZgRwbw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y8qbp650.fsf@new.localdomain>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> This patch against gdb-6.0 adds an option to disable an error check
> which reports a non-contiguous stack as corrupted. I need this
> option to get a reliable stack trace using kgdb on the x86-64 Linux
> kernel because it uses a separate per-processor interrupt stack.
>
> This option is enabled with:
>
> set backtrace switch-stacks on
>
> Jim Houston - Concurrent Computer Corp.
Can you provide more details of the problem -- exactly what do things
look like at the stack switch?
Your problem sounds very similar to the combination of a signal altstack
and a signal trampoline - for such a situtation the stack direction
check isn't applicable (pointing to the real bug).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-09 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-08 18:06 Jim Houston
2004-03-08 22:58 ` Michael Snyder
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Michael Snyder
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-09 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-09 20:21 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-04-02 22:06 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-04-09 22:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-12 21:05 ` Jim Blandy
2004-04-12 21:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Jim Houston
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