Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] scripts/qemugdb/coroutine.py: get pthread pointer from '(gdb) thread info $id' output

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 14/03/2017 12:00, Roman Penyaev wrote:
> Linux is always the same, no worries, take a look
> 
>    gdb/linux-thread-db.c: thread_db_pid_to_str():
>         snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "Thread 0x%lx (LWP %ld)",
> 
> but e.g. bsd output should be different:
> 
>    gdb/bsd-uthread.c: bsd_uthread_pid_to_str():
>         xsnprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "process %d, thread 0x%lx",
> 
> If this is the issue I can add third variant of getting correct
> pthread_self() and make the priority:
> 
>   1. parse 'info thread'
>   2. parse 'start_thread(arg=XXX)'
>   3. go to arch_prctl() invocation.
> 
> But frankly this is far from simplification, from what I've started :)

I think it's okay.  Absence of libc debugging symbols is not an issue,
but the existing code was Linux-specific anyway and your version has
some advantages for robustness.

Paolo