Re: [patch] add /proc/pid/stack to dump task's stack trace

[Mikael Pettersson]

Ingo Molnar writes:
 > > >  # cat /proc/18579/stack
 > > >  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
 > > 
 > > so this file provides view of _kernel_ stack only?
 > > shouldn't it be named kernel-stack then?
 > 
 > it prints the kernel stack right now, but i'd not restrict it to the 
 > kernel stack conceptually: i think we could eventually expand it to 
 > print the user-space portion of the stack as well. (in the case when 
 > user-space is built with frame pointers) We've got code for that in 
 > the kernel already. It would be an easy one-stop-shop for full-range.

That would be quite fragile given the fact that user-space
only has to follow standard ABIs at specific points like
calls to standard library functions. In between, anything
can, and does, happen.
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