On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 04:06:58 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> SA has the ability to fetch the thread's registers via the thread context. It
> would be nice to allow access to the registers from clhsdb. This plays in
> well with the enhancements being done to PointerFinder as part of
> JDK-8247514. Many of the register values will then be automatically displayed
> as symbols, Methods, Threads, stack offsets, nmethods, interpreter codelets,
> etc.
>
> During some recent debugging I did I found it useful to dump a thread's
> registers in this manner. Although in this case I was inlining the code in
> the part of SA where I wanted to see the registers, having it as a clhsdb
> command would not only be useful to user, but also useful when debugging SA
> because it would serve as a code snippet to copy-n-paste where needed.
>
> The syntax is:
>
> threadcontext [-v] { -a | id }
>
> Where -a displays all threads, and "id" is used to display a specific thread.
> This is the same argument syntax as some other commands that let you choose
> all threads or just one thread, such as the "thread" and "where" commands. -v
> just means more verbose output, whereas without it for the most part each
> register printed will just take up one line.
Looks useful to expose this info if we have it!
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Marked as reviewed by kevinw (Committer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925
