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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	 gdb@sourceware.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,  pedro@palves.net,
	 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to backtrace an separate stack?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:13:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee2zezh7.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjCf8BPW+jITJain@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (Stefan Hajnoczi's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:17:20 +0000")

>> You can play with this if you want.  It's on 'submit/green-threads' on
>> my github.  Be warned that I rebase a lot.

Stefan> This looks cool! Would it be useful to see a port of QEMU's coroutine.py
Stefan> script to your green threads API?

Wouldn't hurt :)

Stefan> QEMU's coroutines aren't in a scheduler list so there is no way to
Stefan> enumerate all coroutines. The Python script can register a GDB command
Stefan> (e.g. "qemu coroutine 0x12345678") that makes GDB aware of the
Stefan> coroutine.

On the one hand, maybe this means the model is wrong.

On the other, I suppose qemu could also have a new command to create a
temporary "thread", given a ucontext_t (or whatever), and switch to it.
Then when the user "continue"s, the thread could be deleted again.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2022-03-18 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03 11:22 Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-07 10:49 ` Pedro Alves
2022-03-08  9:47   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-07 14:49 ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-07 17:30   ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-09 10:06     ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-09 19:50       ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-07 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-07 17:18   ` Pedro Alves
2022-03-08  8:43     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-14 20:30   ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-15 14:17     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-18 21:13       ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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