Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:05:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Glenn Gombert <ggombert@imatowns.com>, smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Giant instrumentation Message-ID: <20020307130505.P66287@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020228203310.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20020228184845.00da5868@imatowns.com> <XFMail.020228203310.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thursday, 28 February 2002 at 20:33:10 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Feb-02 Glenn Gombert wrote: >> I think what needs to be added (and is sorely lacking) are some good >> syscalls (that can be called from 'userland' to perform such things as dump >> out the 'ktr' buffer from a user land program and show contents of some of >> the other kernel parameters (when using a test program from user land). It >> seems like a good set of 'debug syscalls' would be a good addition to the >> smp code that is -current and would make debugging/development efforts >> easier and more efficient for everyone :)) > > Yep, being able to dump ktr to userland would be rather cool indeed if you'd > like to tackle it. :) A program to do this already exists for BSD/OS. We have the sources, but we never got round to porting it. Look for tdump(8). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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