MINOR: debug: place a magic pattern at the beginning of post_mortem

In order to ease finding of the post_mortem struct in core dumps, let's
make it start with a recognizable pattern of exactly 32 chars (to
preserve alignment):

  "POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0"

It can then be found like this from gdb:

  (gdb) find 0x000000012345678, 0x0000000100000000, 'P','O','S','T','-','M','O','R','T','E','M'
  0xcfd300 <post_mortem>
  1 pattern found.

Or easier with any other more practical tool (who as ever used "find" in
gdb, given that it cannot iterate over maps and is 100% useless?).
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Willy Tarreau 2024-10-24 11:56:07 +02:00
parent fba48e1c40
commit 989b02e193
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct post_mortem_component {
*/
struct post_mortem {
/* platform-specific information */
char post_mortem_magic[32]; // "POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0"
struct {
struct utsname utsname; // OS name+ver+arch+hostname
char hw_vendor[64]; // hardware/hypervisor vendor when known
@ -2511,6 +2512,10 @@ static void feed_post_mortem_linux()
static int feed_post_mortem()
{
/* write an easily identifiable magic at the beginning of the struct */
strncpy(post_mortem.post_mortem_magic,
"POST-MORTEM STARTS HERE+7654321\0",
sizeof(post_mortem.post_mortem_magic));
/* kernel type, version and arch */
uname(&post_mortem.platform.utsname);