Re: Thread registers dumped to core-file

[Vamsi Krishna S .]

I have posted this patch a few minutes back to the list.
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Vamsi Krishna S.
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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