Re: Thread registers dumped to core-file

Vamsi Krishna S . (vamsi@in.ibm.com)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:37:48 +0530


I have posted this patch a few minutes back to the list.
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Vamsi Krishna S.
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Lab, Bangalore.
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On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:15:49PM +0530, Vamsi Krishna S. wrote: > [This is an email copy of a Usenet post to "mailinglists.external.linux-kernel"] > > We are working on dumping the register state (including FPU and SSE regs) > of all threads to the elf core file. We should release the patch fairly > soon. > > Vamsi Krishna S. > Linux Technology Center > IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, India > > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:52:48 +0530, Jeff Jenkins wrote: > > > I was chatting with the GDB folks, and they mentioned there is no code in the > > kernel which > > will dump *all* thread registers to a core file. Anyone have such code that > > could be used in a patch? > > > > Being able to get at the state of all threads in a process at core-dump time is > > invaluable! > > Anyone else been griping about this? > > > > Rah! > > > > -- jrj

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