linux man page for getunwind

GETUNWIND(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      GETUNWIND(2)

NAME
       getunwind - copy the unwind data to caller's buffer

SYNOPSIS
       #include <syscall.h>
       #include <linux/unwind.h>

       long getunwind(void *buf, size_t buf_size);

       Note: There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.

DESCRIPTION
       Note: this function is obsolete.

       The  IA-64-specific  getunwind()  system  call copies the kernel's call frame unwind data into the buffer pointed to by buf and returns the
       size of the unwind data; this data describes the gate page (kernel code that is mapped into user space).

       The size of the buffer buf is specified in buf_size.  The data is copied only if buf_size is greater than or  equal  to	the  size  of  the
       unwind  data and buf is not NULL; otherwise, no data is copied, and the call succeeds, returning the size that would be needed to store the
       unwind data.

       The first part of the unwind data contains an unwind table.  The rest contains the associated unwind information, in no	particular  order.
       The unwind table contains entries of the following form:

	   u64 start;	   (64-bit address of start of function)
	   u64 end;	   (64-bit address of end of function)
	   u64 info;	   (BUF-relative offset to unwind info)

       An  entry  whose start value is zero indicates the end of the table.  For more information about the format, see the IA-64 Software Conven-
       tions and Runtime Architecture manual.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, getunwind() returns the size of the unwind data.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       getunwind() fails with the error EFAULT if the unwind info can't be stored in the space specified by buf.

VERSIONS
       This system call is available since Linux 2.4.

CONFORMING TO
       This system call is Linux-specific, and is available only on the IA-64 architecture.

NOTES
       This system call has been deprecated.  The modern way to obtain the kernel's unwind data is via the gate  DSO.	The  address  of  the  ELF
       header for this DSO is passed to user level via AT_SYSINFO_EHDR (see getauxval(3)).

       Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; in the unlikely event that you want to call it, use syscall(2).

SEE ALSO
       getauxval(3)

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