From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 09:40:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB241065675 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:40:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@nuenneri.ch) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928A98FC19 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb28 with SMTP id 28so155928wwb.13 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:40:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.87.66 with SMTP id x44mr838435wee.96.1268300437233; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:40:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <291941b81003110126y9640f08oe542938940b0b566@mail.gmail.com> References: <291941b81003100954n276d467an234c24e28f3b28e5@mail.gmail.com> <4B989DD6.601@pathscale.com> <291941b81003110126y9640f08oe542938940b0b566@mail.gmail.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Marius_N=C3=BCnnerich?= Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:17 +0100 Message-ID: To: Shrikanth Kamath Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=C3=B6m?= Subject: Re: ctfconvert dependency... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:40:39 -0000 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26, Shrikanth Kamath wrote: > Any idea if ctfconvert is needed to run on the cddl and sys/cddl files? My > understanding here is ctfconvert > needs to build the ctfdata for the kernel image and the kernel loadable > modules. If we were to DTrace 'DTrace' then > we need the ctfdata for the files under cddl/ and sys/cddl, is that correct? ctf information is needed for everything we want to dtrace. We even need it for tracing userland stuff but that doesn't work right now for other reasons.