linux-kernel - Re: Parsing Structures postmortem from memory dump

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Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 18:37:20 -0400
From:	Dan Noé <dpn@...merica.net>
To:	Adrian Sud <pigsflew2008@...il.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Parsing Structures postmortem from memory dump

Adrian Sud wrote:
> I've looked at /include/linux/sched.h and tried to understand the 
> task_struct structure, but it appears to be variable-length, determined 
> at compile time, and I can't tell exactly how these are stored 
> throughout memory--In a list? a tree?

The task_struct structures are stored on one or more lists.  Note the 
list_head types within the structure - each of this is a list that the 
structure is (potentially) a member of.

This is a good explanation of how the kernel's lists work:

http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists

I don't know if a generalized printer/parser exists for the kernel 
linked list, but this might be a good way to start exploring your 
project.  There are macros to traverse the lists easily, so it shouldn't 
be too difficult.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Dan

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