[Crash-utility] display function parameters for call stack

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Fri Sep 21 13:44:05 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
> I notice there was some discussion around on enabling
> the display function parameters feature for crash tool.
> Like this one:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2009-May/msg00016.html

Yes, it seems to come up every few years.  People have tried, but it
has never come to fruition.

> 
> Although the answer seems to be quite clear, it should be hard to
> support such feature. But does this feature cannot be done anyway?
> I think this feature would be great in assisting kernel debug.
> 
> The main feature I require, first should be know each param's value 
> in the call stack.
> Then it is better to know each call stack's param's name.
> 
> Like for do_vfs_ioctl function, it is better to display as:
> do_vfs_ioctl(filp=xxx, fd=xxx, cmd=xxx, arg=xxx)
> 
> Do you have any idea on how this could be implemented?

No I don't.

Good luck,
  Dave




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