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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:19:44 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r206082 - in head: . share/man/man7 share/mk sys/conf
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004021419100.72297@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BB5D140.5070208@cs.duke.edu>
References:  <201004020655.o326tWax079882@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004021054050.72297@fledge.watson.org> <4BB5D140.5070208@cs.duke.edu>

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> I think there's a reasonable argument that we should be compiling options 
>> KDTRACE_HOOKS into GENERIC, and likewise enabling CTF on the kernel by 
>> default in 9.x.  Part of the point of DTrace is that it "just works", and 
>> we already compile CDDL modules by default (and the hooks don't affect the 
>> license of the base kernel as far as I'm aware).  Any thoughts on this?
>
> I vaguely remember that there were some problems where CTF was incompatible 
> with debugging, and dumps from CTF enabled kernels were unhelpful.  Was this 
> true, and (more importantly), has it been fixed?

Hmm.  I'll investigate that this weekend, I also have recollections of some 
issues here, but haven't been running into them myself so perhaps they were 
fixed.

Robert



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