Re: AMD64_LINUX_frame_size

Walt Drummond via Gdb
2021-01-12T16:10:46Z

I haven't been able to get a handle on this yet. Part of the problem
is that I can't construct a test case w/out hitting the "Process
record does not support instruction 0xc5 at address 0xblah..." issue,
and I haven't found a workaround yet.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:43 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Walt Drummond via Gdb:
>
> > Thanks Tom. My math shows the kernel sizes as
> > Redzone 128
> > math frame/xstate 840
> > rt_sigframe 456
> >
> > That's a total of 1424 bytes, so maybe GDB is saving less than it should?
>
> With AVX-512, the kernel size is way larger.
>
> Do you know for what purpose GDB needs this information? Decoding the
> xstate is quite complicated as far as I know. Is it related to
> preserving stack contents across signal delivery?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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