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To: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>
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Subject: Re: TLS info and core files?
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 27 Mar 2007 20:39:38 +0200
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Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com> writes:
> 
> Should core files have NOTE entries added for some sort of
> thread local storage info to be recorded? (Whatever the
> kernel happens to know that won't be accessible anymore
> after the process is gone, which would probably vary
> from architecture to architecture.)

I think that would be a good idea. Shouldn't be very hard 
to implement. Please send a patch.

We also miss some other information in core files 
I found useful in the past, like the CR3 and some other registers. 
The printks on x86-64 actually give more information 
than a core dump in some cases.

-Andi