How to check the backtrace of a "USER process" in the Linux Kernel Crash Dump

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Published on 2011-11-09T10:33:57Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 15:38 UTC
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I was trying to debug a USER Process in Linux Crash Dump.

The normal steps to go to the crash dump are:

  1. Go to the path where the dump is located.
  2. Use the command crash kernel_link dump.201104181135.

Where kernel_link is a soft link I have created for vmlinux image.

Now you will be in the CRASH prompt. If you run the command foreach <PID Of the process> bt Eg:

crash> **foreach 6920 bt**

**PID: 6920   TASK: ffff88013caaa800  CPU: 1   COMMAND: **"**climmon**"****

 #0 [ffff88012d2cd9c8] **schedule** at ffffffff8130b76a
 #1 [ffff88012d2cdab0] **schedule_timeout** at ffffffff8130bbe7
 #2 [ffff88012d2cdb50] **schedule_timeout_uninterruptible** at ffffffff8130bc2a
 #3 [ffff88012d2cdb60] **__alloc_pages_nodemask** at ffffffff810b9e45
 #4 [ffff88012d2cdc60] **alloc_pages_curren**t at ffffffff810e1c8c
 #5 [ffff88012d2cdc90] **__page_cache_alloc** at ffffffff810b395a
 #6 [ffff88012d2cdcb0] **__do_page_cache_readahead** at ffffffff810bb592
 #7 [ffff88012d2cdd30] **ra_submit** at ffffffff810bb6ba
 #8 [ffff88012d2cdd40] **filemap_fault** at ffffffff810b3e4e
 #9 [ffff88012d2cdda0] **__do_fault** at ffffffff810caa5f
 #10 [ffff88012d2cde50] **handle_mm_fault** at ffffffff810cce69
 #11 [ffff88012d2cdf00] **do_page_fault** at ffffffff8130f560
 #12 [ffff88012d2cdf50] **page_fault** at ffffffff8130d3f5

    RIP: 00007fd02b7e9071  RSP: 0000000040e86ea0  RFLAGS: 00010202
    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 0000000000000000  RCX: 00007fd02b7e9071
    RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: 0000000040e86ec0
    RBP: 0000000040e87140   R8: 0000000000000800   R9: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000202  R12: 00007fff16ec43d0
    R13: 00007fd02bcadf00  R14: 0000000040e87950  R15: 0000000000001000
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0033  SS: 002b

If you check the above backtrace it shows the kernel functions used for scheduling/handling page fault but not the functions that were executed in the USER process (here eg. climmon). So I am not able to debug this process as I am not able to see the functions executed in that process. Can any one help me with this case?

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