[Crash-utility] [PATCH v2] crash: dis: introduce count in reverse and forward mode

[Aaron Tomlin]

On Tue 2019-07-09 15:34 -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> Hi Aaron,

Hi Dave,

> I didn't mean to scare you off, but at the same time I think you
> understand how strongly I prefer to avoid screwing around with the
> gdb code unless it's absolutely necessary.  (Not to mention that 
> the dual-patching of printcmd.c by both gdb-7.6.patch and the
> gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch, may have made it unworkable.)

Not at all. I understand. Unfortunately, I was on holiday so didn't have an
opportunity to follow up.

> So I took my own advice, and implemented the "dis -[rf] address count"
> capability with a simple patch to the top-level kernel.c disassembly
> code:
> 
>   https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/6c891b667f75543db279e1a29bf3d646a83d175d

Excellent - I was working on a similar solution today anyway.

Thanks,

-- 
Aaron Tomlin