From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Mar 6 18:37:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B951337B402; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-1120a3q.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.40.122] helo=europa2) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16inms-0007nG-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:37:46 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020306213608.00da60d0@imatowns.com> X-Sender: ggombert@imatowns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:36:08 -0500 To: Greg Lehey , John Baldwin From: Glenn Gombert Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Giant instrumentation Cc: smp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020307130505.P66287@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20020228184845.00da5868@imatowns.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was looking at getting started on this task, this weekend, since I do not have access to the sources, can someone extract the file(s) in question for me to have a look at what has been done already ?? At 01:05 PM 3/7/2002 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 28 February 2002 at 20:33:10 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 28-Feb-02 Glenn Gombert wrote: >>> I think what needs to be added (and is sorely lacking) are some good >>> syscalls (that can be called from 'userland' to perform such things as dump >>> out the 'ktr' buffer from a user land program and show contents of some of >>> the other kernel parameters (when using a test program from user land). It >>> seems like a good set of 'debug syscalls' would be a good addition to the >>> smp code that is -current and would make debugging/development efforts >>> easier and more efficient for everyone :)) >> >> Yep, being able to dump ktr to userland would be rather cool indeed if you'd >> like to tackle it. :) > >A program to do this already exists for BSD/OS. We have the sources, >but we never got round to porting it. Look for tdump(8). > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > Glenn Gombert ggombert@imatowns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message