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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:07:29 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JKH Task: Stack saving/tracing functionality.
Message-ID:  <20050411160729.GP837@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20050411085956.Y28571@mail.chesapeake.net>
References:  <20050411085956.Y28571@mail.chesapeake.net>

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:08:33AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
+> I have proprietary code from a previous employer of mine that implements
+> some really useful debugging features.  I'm looking for someone who is
+> interested in cleaning it up, making it architecture indepenent, and
+> getting it running on current.  The code basically allows you to save and
+> manipulate stack information.
+>=20
+> This would be very useful for things like lockmgr, which right now we
+> can't really pass file:line information down to without making #ifdef me=
ss
+> of all of the APIs as options DEBUG_LOCKs does somewhat today.  Lockmgr
+> would have a buffer which contained the last N EIPs up the callstack, and
+> this information could be queried and printed using a simple api.
+>=20
+> Interested parties please email me.  We can discuss this and I can provi=
de
+> source.

It would be probably useful for wintess, so when first order is stored,
it can be stored with stack and on LOR, both backtraces can be shown.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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