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To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: stack trace
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:36:06 -0500

mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca said:
> Can you post (on list or web site) a "script" output of you trying to
> get the right stack out of a stuck uml (tracing myself)...? 

Yup.  Here we go...

Here, I attach to the tracing thread and get the stack of the current thread,
which happens to be the idle thread.

um 1013: gdb linux 14936
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
/home/jdike/linux/2.4/um/14936: No such file or directory.
Attaching to program: /home/jdike/linux/2.4/um/linux, process 14936
0xa014efe9 in __wait4 ()

# This is how you get the current task in the tracing thread - get_current()
# only works in a kernel thread.
(gdb) p (struct task_struct *)cpu_tasks[0].task
$2 = (struct task_struct *) 0xa01c0000

# Get the host pid of that task.
(gdb) p $2.thread.extern_pid
$3 = 14939

# Get the current ip and sp.
(gdb) shell cat /proc/14939/stat
14939 (linux) T 14936 14936 883 34816 14936 64 5 3 806 7 62 12 0 0 9 0 0 2 
588043 142770176 5008 4294967295 2684358656 2686348640 3221223520 2686205764
                                                               sp ^^^^^^^^^^ 
   2685727185 73728 201392128 167776768 268444672 3222308129 0 0 17 0
ip ^^^^^^^^^^

# the sp and ip are items 4 and 5 after the 4294967295 (on 2.2 hosts, that's
2^31 - 1 rather than 2^32 - 1).

(gdb) p/x 2686205764
$4 = 0xa01c3f44
(gdb) p/x 2685727185
$5 = 0xa014f1d1

# Where's the ip?
(gdb) i sym 0xa014f1d1
nanosleep + 17 in section .text

# look at the stack around the sp
(gdb) x/32x 0xa01c3f30
0xa01c3f30 :     0x00000000      0x00000000      0xa01c3f60      0xa00020a8
0xa01c3f40 :     0x00000004      0xa012e891      0xa01c3f58      0xa01c3f58
0xa01c3f50 :     0xa01c3f70      0xa0023667      0x00000009      0x3b023380
0xa01c3f60 :     0xa01c3fa0      0xa012a21d      0x0000000a      0xa01c0000
0xa01c3f70 :     0xa01c3fa0      0xa012a213      0x00000003      0x00000024
0xa01c3f80 :     0xa01c3fa0      0xa0011bc4      0xa012b25c      0x00000000
0xa01c3f90 :     0xa01c3fb0      0x00000000      0xa01c3ffc      0x0000000d
0xa01c3fa0 :     0xa01c3fb0      0xa000c50e      0xa01812e0      0xa01c3ffc

# The trick here is to locate a frame near the current sp.  You're looking
# for a consecutive pair of longwords (fp, ip) having the properties that:
#	fp is on the current kernel stack and points further up it
#	ip is a text address (if you can't recognize a UML text address by
# sight, print out &_stext and &_etext)
#
# Starting at 0xa01c3f44, the first pair of works satisfying these requirements
# is at 0xa01c3f50.
# So, print that pair out as hex.
(gdb) p/x *((int (*)[2])0xa01c3f50)
$9 = {0xa01c3f70, 0xa0023667}

# Now, we start climbing the stack.
(gdb) p/x *((int (*)[2])$[0])
$10 = {0xa01c3fa0, 0xa012a213}
(gdb) 
$11 = {0xa01c3fb0, 0xa000c50e}
(gdb) 
$12 = {0xa01c3fc0, 0xa000356d}
(gdb) 
$13 = {0xa01c3fd0, 0xa013082f}
(gdb) 
$14 = {0xa01c3ff0, 0xa012fbdd}
# Stop when you see a NULL frame pointer or gdb bitches at you.
(gdb) 
$15 = {0x0, 0xa01513aa}

# Now we get the symbolic version of the stack with 'i sym' of the second item
# in each pair. 
(gdb) i sym 0xa0023667
check_pgt_cache + 23 in section .text
(gdb) i sym 0xa012a213
cpu_idle + 123 in section .text
(gdb) i sym 0xa000c50e
rest_init + 46 in section .text
(gdb) i sym 0xa000356d
start_kernel + 361 in section .text.init
(gdb) i sym 0xa013082f
start_kernel_proc + 63 in section .text
(gdb) i sym 0xa012fbdd
signal_tramp + 209 in section .text
(gdb) i sym 0xa01513aa
thread_start + 4 in section .text

# You can also get line number information with 'i line'.
(gdb) i line *0xa012a213
Line 488 of "process_kern.c" starts at address 0xa012a213 <cpu_idle+123>
   and ends at 0xa012a21d <cpu_idle+133>.
(gdb) 


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