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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: bdfa15d9
Author:    Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/bdfa15d92cb0e795d04431f82168644dee2da128
Stats:     167 lines in 3 files changed: 162 ins; 0 del; 5 mod

8250801: Add clhsdb "threadcontext" command

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, kevinw

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925

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