proc: add /proc/*/stack
authorKen Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:26:08 +0000 (11:26 +0300)
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:27:44 +0000 (12:27 +0300)
commit2ec220e27f5040aec1e88901c1b6ea3d135787ad
tree06ed111c8e331d47927d9b46386f4063b74ec419
parent631f9c1868b970197747c80fc5168ad7d9fd5d53
proc: add /proc/*/stack

/proc/*/stack adds the ability to query a task's stack trace. It is more
useful than /proc/*/wchan as it provides full stack trace instead of single
depth. Example output:

$ cat /proc/self/stack
[<c010a271>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x17/0x35
[<c01827b4>] proc_pid_stack+0x4a/0x76
[<c018312d>] proc_single_show+0x4a/0x5e
[<c016bdec>] seq_read+0xf3/0x29f
[<c015a004>] vfs_read+0x6d/0x91
[<c015a0c1>] sys_read+0x3b/0x60
[<c0102eda>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

[add save_stack_trace_tsk() on mips, ACK Ralf --adobriyan]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
arch/mips/kernel/stacktrace.c
fs/proc/base.c