Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:44:24 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Anderson Eduardo <anderson_underground@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Debug registers on FreeBSD Message-ID: <201002180944.24085.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <SNT137-w4410E8A9B92233D9F9056F3470@phx.gbl>
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On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:07:36 pm Anderson Eduardo wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > First, I'm starting in the world of the debugging FreeBSD Kernel and, I don't know to use kgdb and ddb properly and, I need set breakpoints using debug register. Those breakpoints in the all tasks. This last might be tricky to accomplish because cpu_switch() will swap out the debug registers if a thread is using them. However, you can easily manage hardware breakpoints from ddb using the 'hwatch' command. It is documented in ddb(4). kgdb doesn't support setting hardware watch points it seems. Note that you can try to use 'db_md_set_watchpoint()' from your kernel module (with DDB compiled into your kernel) if you want to set the address progammatically rather than via the 'hwatch' command in ddb. -- John Baldwinhome | help
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