Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:17:47 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3 |
| |
Hi!
> > I want the x86 CPU error code, which often has interesting clues on the > > problem. trapno would be useful too. I suspect other CPUs have similar > > extended state for exceptions. > > > > I usually hack my kernel to printk() it, but having it in the coredump > > would be more general and you can look at it later. > > > > Eventually (in a future kernel) I would love to have the exception > > handler save the last branch debugging registers of the CPU and the let the > > core dumper put that into the dump too. Then you could easily > > figure out what the program did shortly before the crash. > > > > -Andi > > Having the last branch before a crash would be cool. Its easy to > add note
How do you get that info in the first place? I do not think CPU stores info about last branch it did... Pavel -- Worst form of spam? Adding advertisment signatures ala sourceforge.net. What goes next? Inserting advertisment *into* email? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |