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Date:      Fri, 15 May 2015 08:27:17 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get anything useful out of kgdb?
Message-ID:  <55561055.9020902@ignoranthack.me>
In-Reply-To: <554E41EE.2010202@ignoranthack.me>
References:  <554E41EE.2010202@ignoranthack.me>

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On 05/09/15 10:20, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> tl;dr  What are the kernel config options to get good output of
> kgdb?
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get the ability to debug and display internal
> variables, as one does, with kgdb.  I'm *must* be doing this wrong
> as I cannot get any useful output from accessing variables that
> were JUST accessed in order to invoke a panic() that I have
> inserted.  This is a GENERIC kernel without INVARIANTS and without
> WITNESS:
> 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/wtf_kgdb.txt
> 
> I seem to have debug enabled and am able to browse source, but I 
> obviously haven't compiled correctly as things are optimized out.
> 
> sean
> 

A little bit of progress and learning on my side, so that's good.
I'll be patching gdb with a couple of 10-year old upstream commits
later today to squash some type missing errors, "#0  doadump
(textdump=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93".  Review is here
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2534

sean
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