From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 27 7:55:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5DC151C1 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12342; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA28546; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA10808; Thu, 27 May 1999 07:55:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199905271455.HAA10808@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 07:55:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: "David E. Cross" "Re: kernel debugging assistance" (May 27, 10:32am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "David E. Cross" , Dmitrij Tejblum Subject: Re: kernel debugging assistance Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 27, 10:32am, "David E. Cross" wrote: } Subject: Re: kernel debugging assistance } > I don't think that this dump is useful for debugging this problem. Perhaps, if } > you compile the kernel with DEBUG_LOCKS, you will get more useful info. } > } > Dima } } I checked through the source for DEBUG_LOCKS, it doesn't appear to do anything } other than to printout information.... information that I already have access } to by way of this dump file. I will turn it on regardless swo it makes my } life a bit more simple. In some cases it sure would be nice if DEBUG_LOCKS preserved more of the stack context. Knowing that the current holder of the lock also called vop_stdlock() isn't all that useful. I'd rather know where vget() was called. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message