+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #243816 +++

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-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-12 00:10 EST --
Hi Folks,

Wehn doing analysis using the ESP and EIP values in ps under 64-bit RHEL 4.4. I
seem top only see the low 32-bits of the addreses when using "ps -e -o eip,esp".

Should this have been extended or  are there plans to introduce new namely
fields so as not to break perceived API's?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Ken.
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-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-12 00:10 EST --
Just to confirm, so far as I can tell it's indeed the case here and I
don't see any obvious way to change the behavior nor alternate variables
for it. Passing up for review.

<snip>
[root@dl585 ~]# ps -e -o pid,eip,esp
  PID      EIP      ESP
    1 7cbbf8f5 ffffffff
    2 00000000 00000000
    3 00000000 00000000
<snip>
 4307 7cbb9272 ffffffff
 6839 7cbb9272 ffffffff
 8419 7cb8f7a2 ffffffff
 8509 ffffe405 ffffffff
 8761 7cbb9272 ffffffff
</snip>

Nor is it any different on RHEL5:

<snip>
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-8.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:29:35 EST
2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]#  ps -e -o pid,eip,esp
  PID      EIP      ESP
    1 a62c6b93 ffffffff
    2 00000000 00000000
    3 00000000 00000000
<snip>
28385 00000000 00000000
28386 00000000 00000000
28389 aafa3b93 ffffffff
29357 a62bfc80 ffffffff
30741 00000000 00000000
</snip>



Issue escalated to Support Engineering Group by: fhirtz.
Internal Status set to 'Waiting on SEG'

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-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-12 00:10 EST --
The kernel puts the 64-bit value in /proc/<pid>/stat.
Issue moved from 'SEG - Kernel' to 'SEG - Base OS' by: streeter
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-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-12 00:10 EST --
ps deliberately casts those values to unsigned int and formats them to 8
digits.  I'm not sure if that's a bug or that's deliberate to avoid
breaking scripts.  I'll check with our maintainers.

Category set to: Applications::Functions
Ticket type set to: 'Problem'

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-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-12 00:19 EST --
Excerpts from output.c in the procps source package:

return snprintf(outbuf, COLWID, "%08x", (unsigned)(pp->kstk_eip));

return snprintf(outbuf, COLWID, "%08x", (unsigned)(pp->kstk_esp));

Clearly this is an intentional cast to a 32-bit integer.  Either we need
to change this to an unsigned long, or we need to introduce eip64 and
esp64 fields so users can get this info conveniently in ps.


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Internal Status set to 'Waiting on Engineering'

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-- Additional comment from tsmetana on 2007-06-13 07:44 EST --
I have prepared a patch that adds eip64 and esp64 specifiers that output 16
characters wide columns with 64bit pointers.

-- Additional comment from pm-rhel on 2007-06-13 08:04 EST --
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.