Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:22:51 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDB_TRACE in GENERIC Message-ID: <20100619102251.6db25d41@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4C1C7686.3050206@freebsd.org> References: <4C1C7686.3050206@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:49:26 +0300 Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I propose to add the following options into GENERIC (perhaps only i386 and amd64): > > options KDB > options KDB_TRACE > options KDB_UNATTENDED > options SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY # <- not sure about his one > > This would increase kernel size only by a fraction, would not result in any POLA > violations (KDB_UNATTENDED, SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY) and would provide a useful service. > > Currently we get many panic reports that are almost impossible to analyze > because there is no stack trace. Especially this is true for panics at > installation time, when people use GENERIC from release media and do not have > ability to try a custom kernel. > > What do you think? > Seems like a good idea to me. -- Gary Jennejohn (gj@)
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