[Crash-utility] user defined symbol

[Dave Anderson]

Ming Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:57 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
>> Ming Zhang wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I wonder if it possible to have this feature - user defined symbol.
>>>
>>> for example, define inode1 = 0x1234
>>>
>>> then in all place has this 0x1234 in bt or rd command, show inode1
>>> instead of numeric value,
>>>
>>> This should be very helpful when these value pop up in a haystack of
>>> numeric values...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>> Why not just pipe the relevant command to grep to pin-point the
>> locations of the value you're tracking?
>>
>> I know it's tempting, but creating a crash command/option for
>> specific kernel-debug cases would soon become overwhelming.
>> So I'm not particulary excited about this suggestion; maybe
>> others would be...
> 
> understood.
> 
> 
>> BTW, as you requested earler, I've got the "kmem -s <address>"
>> output changed such that the base address of the object is shown
>> instead of the <address> argument which may be offset into the
>> slab object.  With CONFIG_SLUB kernels, that's how it currently
>> works, although I'm also fixing "kmem -S" and "kmem -s address"
>> failures to handle some 2.6.25 kernel changes to SLUB object
>> free-list tracking.  And there still appears to be more
>> SLUB-related churn being proposed on LKML on the horizon.
> 
> cool. where i can get this updated code?
> 
> 
>> Dave

Remove the previous patch I sent you and apply the attached one.

Dave


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