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SubjectRe: [patch] add /proc/pid/stack to dump task's stack trace
Ingo Molnar writes:
> > > # cat /proc/18579/stack
> > > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> >
> > so this file provides view of _kernel_ stack only?
> > shouldn't it be named kernel-stack then?
>
> it prints the kernel stack right now, but i'd not restrict it to the
> kernel stack conceptually: i think we could eventually expand it to
> print the user-space portion of the stack as well. (in the case when
> user-space is built with frame pointers) We've got code for that in
> the kernel already. It would be an easy one-stop-shop for full-range.

That would be quite fragile given the fact that user-space
only has to follow standard ABIs at specific points like
calls to standard library functions. In between, anything
can, and does, happen.


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