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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:17:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Sushanth Rai <sushanth_rai@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running kgdb in batch mode.
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211261015430.2164@multics.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ed Maste wrote:

> On 26 November 2012 01:21, Sushanth Rai <sushanth_rai@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Basically I would like to get kernel backtrace of a bunch of threads 
>> from the live kernel under some conditions. When the condition is seen 
>> I would like to run kgdb, collect kernel backtrace of specific threads 
>> and exit. Is there a way run kgdb in batch mode ? Or any other way to 
>> get the stack trace.
>
> Have a look at /usr/sbin/crashinfo for an example of how to do so -
> basically just run kgdb $KERNEL $VMCORE < commands_file.

procstat -kk [pid] will give a kernel stack trace from userspace.

-Ben Kaduk



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