Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:49:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Updated procstat(1) Message-ID: <20071128084746.L94692@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128042152.GB95446@atarininja.org> References: <20071127171228.N94692@fledge.watson.org> <20071128042152.GB95446@atarininja.org>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Wesley Shields wrote: > Here's an updated patch to sys/amd64/amd64/db_trace.c (it's a diff against > revision 1.81). It changes "register rbp" to be "register_t rbp" and fixes > the extra "W" in TD_IS_SWAPPED. The kernel built fine after these changes. > I'll test it out tomorrow. I've gone ahead and applied that change in Perforce, and look forward to hearing back on the testing. >> I think procstat(1) is getting a lot closer to commitable state for >> 8-CURRENT, but further feedback would be most welcome (including reports of >> success on non-i386 architectures, and possibly patches to fix them). For >> FreeBSD developers with P4 access, you can also check out > > Thank you for this. I think procstat(1) is going to be very useful. If you can think of other process-inspection related things it could be doing, let me know. The one thing I currently have in mind that I haven't made progress on is dumping the kernel signal state for the process (i.e., what signals have handlers, etc), which may be useful when debugging signal problems for an application. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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