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kerneldump: Inline dump_savectx() into its callers

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kerneldump: Inline dump_savectx() into its callers

The callers of dump_savectx() (i.e., doadump() and livedump_start())
subsequently call dumpsys()/minidumpsys(), which dump the calling
thread's stack when writing the dump. If dump_savectx() gets its own
stack frame, that frame might be clobbered when its caller later calls
dumpsys()/minidumpsys(), making it difficult for debuggers to unwind the
stack.

Fix this by making dump_savectx() a macro, so that savectx() is always
called directly by the function which subsequently calls
dumpsys()/minidumpsys().

This fixes stack unwinding for the panicking thread from arm64
minidumps. The same happened to work on amd64, but kgdb reports the
dump_savectx() calls as coming from dumpsys(), so in that case it
appears to work by accident.

Fixes: c9114f9f86f9 ("Add new vnode dumper to support live minidumps")
Reviewed by: mhorne, jhb
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39151

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markjAuthored on Mar 20 2023, 6:16 PM
Reviewer
mhorne
Differential Revision
D39151: kerneldump: Inline dump_savectx() into its callers
Parents
rG3ce64010f8ce: sh(1): fix history file write checking
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