Updated version fixing the redundant collection of the current tasks'
register state as noted by Vamsi Krishna. See attached.
--mgross
On Friday 14 June 2002 02:40 pm, mgross wrote:
> The following patch is a back port of the 2.5.18 tcore patch I posted last
> week.
>
> It applies cleanly to the 2.4.18 base tree.
>
> It has some warnings and one simple regection when applied to the
> 2.4.18-ia64 tree due to a patch collision with the ia64 patch. I have a
> ia64 version of this patch available, upon request, which will apply
> cleanly to the ia64 kernel.
>
> This patch has been tested on SMP and UP i386 architectures and works very
> well. The ia64 SMP version has also been tested and works very well.
>
> To use this patch you will need to strip the objects from the libpthread
> module loaded by GDB at post mortem debug time.
> ('strip /lib/libpthread-0.9.so for my system', YMMV)
>
> I would like to see this feature added to the linux kernel. Support for
> multi-threaded core dumps has been in Solaris for a LONG time now, and its
> silly for it to not exist in Linux. ISV's need this type of support from
> the kernel.
>
> Please apply this patch. Its a good thing.
>
> --mgross
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