Re: Some thoughts on Giant instrumentation

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
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