Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/qemugdb: support coroutine backtrace in coredumps

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>]

23.04.2018 12:33, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 09:37:52PM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> On 2018-04-09 10:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> I wonder what the point of select-frame is then...
>>>
>>> I have CCed the GDB mailing list.  Maybe someone can help us.  Context:
>>>
>>> QEMU implements coroutines using jmpbuf.  We'd like to print coroutine
>>> call stacks in GDB and have a script that works when a process is being
>>> debugged (it sets the registers).
>>>
>>> Now we'd like to extend the script to work on core dumps where it's not
>>> possible to set registers (since there is no process being debugged).
>>>
>>> Is there a way to backtrace an arbitrary call stack in a core dump?
>> Not that I know of.  The "frame <stack-addr> <pc-addr>" form of the frame
>> command sounds like it should be usable to achieve that, but it doesn't
>> seem to work in that way.  I really wonder if it's working as it was
>> intended initially.  I guess using that form of the frame command should
>> override/mask the real current values of $sp and $pc?
> Yes, that is what I was expecting.
>
> Vladimir has a script to copy the coredump file and manipulate the
> registers on disk, but it would be nicer to do stack-switching inside
> the GDB session without needing to create another coredump file.
>
> Vladimir: Would you like to write a GDB patch?  If GDB is fixed then
> workaround won't be necessary.

Hmm, unlikely. At least, not in the nearest future.

>
> Stefan


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Best regards,
Vladimir