For the purpose of scylla-gdb.py command "scylla
active-sstables". Before the patch, readers were located by scanning
the heap for live objects with vtable pointers corresponding to
readers. It was observed that the test scylla_gdb/test_misc.py::test_active_sstables started failing like this:
gdb.error: Error occurred in Python: Cannot access memory at address 0x300000000000000
This could be explained by there being a live object on the heap which
used to be a reader but now is a different object, and the _sst field
contains some other data which is not a pointer.
To fix, track readers explicitly in a linked list so that the gdb
script can reliably walk readers.
Fixes#18618.
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