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Debugging a Deadlock with Windbg's !clrstack command


When I issued clrstack command, I got the following output. It is the callstack of a blocking thread which owns a deadlock and results in a deadlock. Is that its exact purpose? Does it have any other purposes (without any parameters). Where can I get more information?

!clrstack
OS Thread Id: 0x1b2c (6956)
ESP       EIP     
0012f370 7c90e514 [HelperMethodFrame: 0012f370] System.Threading.Thread.SleepInternal(Int32)
0012f3c4 79299275 System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(Int32)
0012f3c8 00e0030f testlock.LockTest.Test()
0012f420 00e00146 testlock.Program.Main(System.String[])
0012f69c 79e71b4c [GCFrame: 0012f69c] 

Solution

  • How to: Debug Deadlocks Using Windbg?

    WinDbg / SOS Cheat Sheet

    CLRStack [-a] [-l] [-p] [-n] Provides a stack trace of managed code only.

    • The -p option shows arguments to the managed function.

    • The -l option shows information on local variables in a frame. The SOS Debugging Extension cannot retrieve local names, so the output for local names is in the format = .

    • The -a(all) option is a shortcut for -l and -pcombined.

    • The -n option disables the display of source file names and line numbers. If the debugger has the option SYMOPT_LOAD_LINES specified, SOS will look up the symbols for every managed frame and if successful will display the corresponding source file name and line number. The -n (No line numbers) parameter can be specified to disable this behavior.

    The SOS Debugging Extension does not display transition frames on x64 and IA-64-based platforms.

    Update: (Thanks to @Liran): To see the call stacks for all the threads in your application, run the following command:

     ~*e!clrstack 
    

    (which basically means, "iterate over all of the threads, and execute the command '!clrstack' on every one of them").