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From: Walt Drummond <walt@drummond.us>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Walt Drummond via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: AMD64_LINUX_frame_size
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:10:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADCN6nwezBw4VyXPcdFe5E-hpcknYt7jF8F_g=h9tTO34qd46A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg77pxdy.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

I haven't been able to get a handle on this yet.  Part of the problem
is that I can't construct a test case w/out hitting the "Process
record does not support instruction 0xc5 at address 0xblah..." issue,
and I haven't found a workaround yet.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:43 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Walt Drummond via Gdb:
>
> > Thanks Tom.  My math shows the kernel sizes as
> > Redzone 128
> > math frame/xstate 840
> > rt_sigframe 456
> >
> > That's a total of 1424 bytes, so maybe GDB is saving less than it should?
>
> With AVX-512, the kernel size is way larger.
>
> Do you know for what purpose GDB needs this information?  Decoding the
> xstate is quite complicated as far as I know.  Is it related to
> preserving stack contents across signal delivery?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-12 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04 18:30 AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Walt Drummond
2021-01-06 16:38 ` AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Walt Drummond
2021-01-07 21:19   ` AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Tom Tromey
2021-01-07 21:49     ` AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Walt Drummond
2021-01-09 20:14       ` AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Tom Tromey
2021-01-11 10:43       ` AMD64_LINUX_frame_size Florian Weimer
2021-01-12 16:10         ` Walt Drummond [this message]

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