[RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:42:59PM +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote:
> 
> 
> But as of now there are few issues with "gdb bt"
> 
> 1) Sometimes the no. of stack frames displayed doesn't end for a long time
>    and also the "q" command doesn't work as desired once the screen is full.
>    The workaround is to give some limiting count like "gdb bt 10". 
>    I tried gdb ver 6.1 externally (outside crash) also and see the same
>    long ending stack frames where as the latest gdb (ver 6.4), works fine. So
>    just wondering if you are planning to upgrade embedded gdb to ver 6.4?
> 
> 2) As unlike crash, there is no concept of tasks in gdb, we can only see the
>    backtraces for tasks active at the time of crash.

I guess, we will continue to have both the backtracing mechanisms. I am
assuming that this approach does not disable crash's bt mechanism. Its
kind of add on?  So a user can use crash bt mechanism for backtraces of
tasks which are not currently running on some cpu.

Thanks
Vivek