arch: arm: Collect full register state in Cortex-M Exception Stack Frame
To debug hard-to-reproduce faults/panics, it's helpful to get the full
register state at the time a fault occurred. This enables recovering
full backtraces and the state of local variables at the time of a
crash.
This PR introduces a new Kconfig option, CONFIG_EXTRA_EXCEPTION_INFO,
to facilitate this use case. The option enables the capturing of the
callee-saved register state (r4-r11 & exc_return) during a fault. The
info is forwarded to `k_sys_fatal_error_handler` in the z_arch_esf_t
parameter. From there, the data can be saved for post-mortem analysis.
To test the functionality a new unit test was added to
tests/arch/arm_interrupt which verifies the register contents passed
in the argument match the state leading up to a crash.
Signed-off-by:
Chris Coleman <chris@memfault.com>
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