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Date:      Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: Missing stack frames in kgdb/ddb traces
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011008094523.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110081423.aa55254@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On 08-Oct-01 Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <20011008214808.S17093-100000@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans
> writes:
>>
>>BTW, I think parts of the keyboard interrupt handler need to be fast
>>interrupts again so that the keyboard can be used to debug infinite
>>loops in the kernel like it used to be able to.  Now the debugger
>>hotkey always takes you to an uninteresting place in the keyboard
>>ithread even if it is not blocked.
> 
> Yeah, this was an annoying side-effect of the ithread changes. I
> was delighted to discover that the serial console case still gives
> a useful trace.

Note that you can trace an arbitrart process (but figuring out which process to
trace might be a pain) by doing 'trace <decimal pid>' such as 'trace 23' to
trace process 23.  Your patches look good to me though.

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