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http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/gdb6-talk/?s=3

Steve Work <swork@aventail.com> wrote:
>
> Coredumps from programs with more than one thread show garbage
> information for all threads except the primary.  The problem was
> introduced with:
>
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5df240826c90afdc7956f55a004ea6b702df9203
>
> on Apr 16 ("fix crash in entry.S restore_all") and is still present in
> current builds.

Thanks for working that out.
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> "kill -SEGV" this program and "info threads" the resulting corefile to
> see the problem:
>
> #include <pthread.h>
> static void* thread_sleep(void* x) { while (1) sleep(30); }
> int main(int c, char** v) {
>      const static int tcount = 5;
>      pthread_t thr[tcount];
>      int i;
>      for (i=0; i<tcount; ++i)
>          pthread_create(&thr[i], NULL, thread_sleep, NULL);
>      while (1)
>          sleep(30);
>      return 0;
> }
>
> (gdb) info threads
>    7 process 18138  0x00000246 in ?? ()
>    6 process 18139  0x00000246 in ?? ()
>    5 process 18140  0x00000246 in ?? ()
>    4 process 18141  0x00000246 in ?? ()
>    3 process 18142  0x00000246 in ?? ()
>    2 process 18143  0x00000246 in ?? ()
> * 1 process 18137  0xb7e69db6 in nanosleep () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> (gdb)
>
> All these threads should show a legitimate location (the same spot in
> nanosleep) and do on kernels prior to the commit named above.  (Notice
> one too many threads listed here also -- is this a related problem?)
>
> Commenting out this line (in asm/i386/kernel/process.c:copy_thread)
> fixes the corefiles:
>
>    childregs = (struct pt_regs *) ((unsigned long) childregs - 8);
>
> but presumably re-introduces the crash the original patch was intended
> to fix.  Should this line be conditioned somehow?  Or do the corefile
> write routines need to know about this adjusted offset?
>

Yes, I guess fixing up the core output would be the way to fix it.


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