[Crash-utility] [PATCH v2 4/4] [ppc] Enable stack trace analysis for compressed Kdump

Suzuki K. Poulose suzuki at in.ibm.com
Wed Feb 1 06:15:20 UTC 2012


In both Kdump and Compressed Kdump cores, we have the NT_PRSTATUS
notes available for the active tasks and we use them for getting the
stack trace. So reuse the function for compressed Kdump.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com>
---

 ppc.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ppc.c b/ppc.c
index 78c9178..9e704d0 100755
--- a/ppc.c
+++ b/ppc.c
@@ -1193,8 +1193,11 @@ ppc_dumpfile_stack_frame(struct bt_info *bt, ulong *getpc, ulong *getsp)
 {
 	struct syment *sp;
 
-	/* For KDUMP get the SP, PC from pt_regs stored in the core */
-	if (pc->flags & KDUMP) {
+	/* 
+	 * For KDUMP and compressed KDUMP get the SP, PC from pt_regs 
+	 * read from the Elf Note. 
+	 */
+	if (ELF_NOTES_VALID()) {
 		ppc_kdump_stack_frame(bt, getpc, getsp);
 		return;
 	}




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