From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 18 18:23:34 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C0637B403; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BCD6A6ACC0; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:53:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:53:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 db_trace.c Message-ID: <20010619105325.A41386@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <85810.992891943@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:37:08PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 18 June 2001 at 12:37:08 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 18-Jun-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Can we also please try to find some code to print a symbolic (preferably) >> or numeric traceback on panic, even if DDB is not in the kernel ? > > Well, you would just need to always compile db_trace.o into the > kernel, and then you would need to call it in the !DDB case in > panic(). However, that is quite ddb specific, so people using other > kernel debuggers might object. Well, I don't like ddb much, but I think this would be a good idea. Currently we get nearly a screen full of data of only limited value; as phk says, a backtrace would be immensely useful for Normal Users. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message