Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:08:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Force a dump without panicing? Message-ID: <20031221060829.GA74567@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1071986016.1216.2.camel@localhost> References: <1071986016.1216.2.camel@localhost>
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In the last episode (Dec 20), Ryan Sommers said: > Is it possible to force a kernel dump without panicing the system? > > I dropped into the debugger and did a "call doadump" however, when I > tried to quit the debugger after this it results in a panic. That should work; I called doadump that way lots of times debugging my crashdump compressor. There's a bug in dumpsys() that only lets you call it once, though. Add a "memset(&kdh, 0, sizeof(kdh))" just above the code that fills in kdh. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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