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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcore: handle known-all-zeroes hole mappings
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 06:43:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y0hunkbo.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260507110301.345066-1-pedro@palves.net> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 7 May 2026 12:03:01 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> writes:

Pedro> And the fact that we no longer emit segments with CONTENTS/ALLOW makes
Pedro> the resulting gdb-generated cores's apparent size be much smaller,
Pedro> closer to kernel-generated cores's:

Pedro>  $ ls -als --hu core/*
Pedro>  440M -rw------- 1 pedalves pedalves 474M Mar 24 08:14 core/kernel.core
Pedro>   51M -rw-rw-r-- 1 pedalves pedalves 257G Mar 24 08:16 core/gdb-before.core
Pedro>   52M -rw-rw-r-- 1 pedalves pedalves 642M Mar 24 09:12 core/gdb-after.core

Two of these names must be swapped because here the kernel core is much
larger.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-08 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-07 11:03 Pedro Alves
2026-05-08  9:03 ` Andrew Burgess
2026-05-11 12:14   ` Pedro Alves
2026-05-08 12:43 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2026-05-08 12:44   ` Tom Tromey

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