Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:36:08 -0500 From: Glenn Gombert <ggombert@imatowns.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Giant instrumentation Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20020306213608.00da60d0@imatowns.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307130505.P66287@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <XFMail.020228203310.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3.0.6.32.20020228184845.00da5868@imatowns.com> <XFMail.020228203310.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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