Re: Making "info thread" sane

George Anzinger
2004-03-03T22:04:12Z

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>> The interesting thing about George's situation is that there's a lot of
>>> threads (basically, all but one of them) that we know in advance will
>>> be stuck in context switching code. One of the nice things about info
>>> threads is that it shows you the current frame for all your threads;
>>> but in this case, that's not really very interesting information.
>>>
>>> If we could find out where those threads were _before_ they switched
>>> out, now, that would make for an interesting overview.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, I am not apposed to a macro solution. But, as far as I know the
>> macros are a bit weak. For example, the info thread command lists the
>> thread number, pid, and an info field (which in my case is the task
>> name from the kernel task struct). So how would a macro keep this
>> info intact and display it along with the "up" result on the same
>> line? In my thoughts on this I have considered a maintaince request
>> to the host which would return the pid and the info field, ....
>
>
>> I also wonder how to determine, when stepping through the threads,
>> that that was the last one. As far as I know the top thread number is
>> not available as a $var (but that would be nice for other macros as
>> well).
>
>
> Sorry, I'm lost here. Can you perhaphs sketch out how you'd expect GDB,
> the user, and the target to interact?

First, the objective is to get something like what "info thread" does but with a
frame that is outside of the switch code (which may mean several frames up the
stack). I was considering a macro that would do a silent info thread followed
by a loop on each discovered thread. In your message yesterday you suggested
something like:

thread apply all try... end

Well, I don't find "try" but the apply all seems to accept a macro as a command
so I think this will do the right thing. And up-silent does a silent up.

So, this would be my macro set:

define do_threads
thread apply all do_th_lines
end

define do_th_lines
while ($pc > $low_sched) && ($pc < $high_sched)
up-silent
end
do-silent
up
end

What is missing are: 1) I would like to not have the newline after the
"Thread 1 (Thread 1):" (a minor point, but with 100 threads it adds up) and 2) I
would like to have the result of the "ThreadExtraInfo" on the same line (as the
info thread command does).

Nice, would be the ability to print the final up result without doing the down
first. In fact this is really needed if it turns out that we are at the first
frame which would be the case for the current thread. Is that a command I missed?

I suspect that 2) can be handled by "info remote-process" with changes to the
stub AND I would like this to NOT put in a linefeed.

It would appear that this has unwound into a couple of rather simple things:
a) No new line capability on the "thread apply all"
b) No new line on "info remote-process"
c) Ability to do the up/down report without moving to a new frame.

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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
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