Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:19:48 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r248836 - head/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb Message-ID: <201304011219.48988.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201303281704.r2SH4x3J025620@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201303281704.r2SH4x3J025620@svn.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:04:59 pm Will Andrews wrote: > Author: will > Date: Thu Mar 28 17:04:59 2013 > New Revision: 248836 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248836 > > Log: > KGDB: Allow modules to be loaded from the specified kernel's directory. > > When looking up the absolute path for a kld, call find_kld_path() first. > This enables locating the module in a different directory than the one > stored in kernel memory. > > With this change, kgdb can now be run on a kernel & vmcore whose associated > modules are located in the same directory as the kernel. This makes > independent triaging of problems much easier. > > This change also does not break the normal kgdb use case where no arguments > are specified; in that case kgdb loads the running kernel and its modules. > > Reviewed by: adrian > Approved by: ken (mentor) > Sponsored by: Spectra Logic > MFC after: 1 month Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier (was away from mail). This looks good to me. -- John Baldwin
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201304011219.48988.jhb>