[PATCH v2] kdump: Fix gdb macros work work with newer and 64-bit kernels

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Mon May 16 02:32:49 PDT 2016


On 05/10/16 at 07:30pm, minyard at acm.org wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>
> 
> Lots of little changes needed to be made to clean these up, remove the
> four byte pointer assumption and traverse the pid queue properly.
> Also consolidate the traceback code into a single function instead
> of having three copies of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>

Hi Corey,

Today I tried gdbmacro.txt and found dmesg doesn't work. I tested it
on the latest 4.6.0 kernel. And I directly copy /proc/vmcore out
and use gdb to open it by below command" 

gdb vmlinux /var/crash/vmcore --"gdbmacros.txt"

All macro functions work well except of dmesg since code inside refer to
the deprecated variable like "log_end" and "logged_chars". But these
have been changed since this commit:

commit 7ff9554bb578ba02166071d2d487b7fc7d860d62
Author: Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>
Date:   Thu May 3 02:29:13 2012 +0200

    printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer

So invoking dmesg will cause an error message printing out:

(gdb) dmesg
No symbol "log_end" in current context.

Thanks
Baoquan

> ---
> 
> Changes since v1:
> 
> Rename btthreadstruct to btthreadstack
> 
> Use sizeof(union thread_union) for the stack size instead of a hardcoded
> 4096.
> 
>  Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt | 96 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt b/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt
> index 9b9b454..35f6a98 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt
> @@ -15,15 +15,16 @@
>  
>  define bttnobp
>  	set $tasks_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->tasks)
> -	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->pids[1].pid_list.next)
> +	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->thread_group.next)
>  	set $init_t=&init_task
>  	set $next_t=(((char *)($init_t->tasks).next) - $tasks_off)
> +	set var $stacksize = sizeof(union thread_union)
>  	while ($next_t != $init_t)
>  		set $next_t=(struct task_struct *)$next_t
>  		printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $next_t.pid, $next_t.comm
>  		printf "===================\n"
> -		set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.esp
> -		set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~4095) + 4096
> +		set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.sp
> +		set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~($stacksize - 1)) + $stacksize
>  
>  		while ($stackp < $stack_top)
>  			if (*($stackp) > _stext && *($stackp) < _sinittext)
> @@ -31,13 +32,13 @@ define bttnobp
>  			end
>  			set $stackp += 4
>  		end
> -		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		while ($next_th != $next_t)
>  			set $next_th=(struct task_struct *)$next_th
>  			printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $next_t.pid, $next_t.comm
>  			printf "===================\n"
> -			set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.esp
> -			set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~4095) + 4096
> +			set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.sp
> +			set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~($stacksize - 1)) + stacksize
>  
>  			while ($stackp < $stack_top)
>  				if (*($stackp) > _stext && *($stackp) < _sinittext)
> @@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ define bttnobp
>  				end
>  				set $stackp += 4
>  			end
> -			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		end
>  		set $next_t=(char *)($next_t->tasks.next) - $tasks_off
>  	end
> @@ -54,42 +55,44 @@ document bttnobp
>  	dump all thread stack traces on a kernel compiled with !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
>  end
>  
> +define btthreadstack
> +	set var $pid_task = $arg0
> +
> +	printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $pid_task.pid, $pid_task.comm
> +	printf "task struct: "
> +	print $pid_task
> +	printf "===================\n"
> +	set var $stackp = $pid_task.thread.sp
> +	set var $stacksize = sizeof(union thread_union)
> +	set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~($stacksize - 1)) + $stacksize
> +	set var $stack_bot = ($stackp & ~($stacksize - 1))
> +
> +	set $stackp = *((unsigned long *) $stackp)
> +	while (($stackp < $stack_top) && ($stackp > $stack_bot))
> +		set var $addr = *(((unsigned long *) $stackp) + 1)
> +		info symbol $addr
> +		set $stackp = *((unsigned long *) $stackp)
> +	end
> +end
> +document btthreadstack
> +	 dump a thread stack using the given task structure pointer
> +end
> +
> +
>  define btt
>  	set $tasks_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->tasks)
> -	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->pids[1].pid_list.next)
> +	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->thread_group.next)
>  	set $init_t=&init_task
>  	set $next_t=(((char *)($init_t->tasks).next) - $tasks_off)
>  	while ($next_t != $init_t)
>  		set $next_t=(struct task_struct *)$next_t
> -		printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $next_t.pid, $next_t.comm
> -		printf "===================\n"
> -		set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.esp
> -		set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~4095) + 4096
> -		set var $stack_bot = ($stackp & ~4095)
> -
> -		set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -		while (($stackp < $stack_top) && ($stackp > $stack_bot))
> -			set var $addr = *($stackp + 4)
> -			info symbol $addr
> -			set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -		end
> +		btthreadstack $next_t
>  
> -		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		while ($next_th != $next_t)
>  			set $next_th=(struct task_struct *)$next_th
> -			printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $next_t.pid, $next_t.comm
> -			printf "===================\n"
> -			set var $stackp = $next_t.thread.esp
> -			set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~4095) + 4096
> -			set var $stack_bot = ($stackp & ~4095)
> -
> -			set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -			while (($stackp < $stack_top) && ($stackp > $stack_bot))
> -				set var $addr = *($stackp + 4)
> -				info symbol $addr
> -				set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -			end
> -			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +			btthreadstack $next_th
> +			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		end
>  		set $next_t=(char *)($next_t->tasks.next) - $tasks_off
>  	end
> @@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ end
>  define btpid
>  	set var $pid = $arg0
>  	set $tasks_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->tasks)
> -	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->pids[1].pid_list.next)
> +	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->thread_group.next)
>  	set $init_t=&init_task
>  	set $next_t=(((char *)($init_t->tasks).next) - $tasks_off)
>  	set var $pid_task = 0
> @@ -113,29 +116,18 @@ define btpid
>  			set $pid_task = $next_t
>  		end
>  
> -		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		while ($next_th != $next_t)
>  			set $next_th=(struct task_struct *)$next_th
>  			if ($next_th.pid == $pid)
>  				set $pid_task = $next_th
>  			end
> -			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		end
>  		set $next_t=(char *)($next_t->tasks.next) - $tasks_off
>  	end
>  
> -	printf "\npid %d; comm %s:\n", $pid_task.pid, $pid_task.comm
> -	printf "===================\n"
> -	set var $stackp = $pid_task.thread.esp
> -	set var $stack_top = ($stackp & ~4095) + 4096
> -	set var $stack_bot = ($stackp & ~4095)
> -
> -	set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -	while (($stackp < $stack_top) && ($stackp > $stack_bot))
> -		set var $addr = *($stackp + 4)
> -		info symbol $addr
> -		set $stackp = *($stackp)
> -	end
> +	btthreadstack $pid_task
>  end
>  document btpid
>  	backtrace of pid
> @@ -145,7 +137,7 @@ end
>  define trapinfo
>  	set var $pid = $arg0
>  	set $tasks_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->tasks)
> -	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->pids[1].pid_list.next)
> +	set $pid_off=((size_t)&((struct task_struct *)0)->thread_group.next)
>  	set $init_t=&init_task
>  	set $next_t=(((char *)($init_t->tasks).next) - $tasks_off)
>  	set var $pid_task = 0
> @@ -157,13 +149,13 @@ define trapinfo
>  			set $pid_task = $next_t
>  		end
>  
> -		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +		set $next_th=(((char *)$next_t->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		while ($next_th != $next_t)
>  			set $next_th=(struct task_struct *)$next_th
>  			if ($next_th.pid == $pid)
>  				set $pid_task = $next_th
>  			end
> -			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->pids[1].pid_list.next) - $pid_off)
> +			set $next_th=(((char *)$next_th->thread_group.next) - $pid_off)
>  		end
>  		set $next_t=(char *)($next_t->tasks.next) - $tasks_off
>  	end
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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