Re: Some thoughts on Giant instrumentation

  I was looking at getting started on this task, this weekend, since I do
not have access to the sources, can someone extract the file(s) in question
for me to have a look at what has been done already ??


At 01:05 PM 3/7/2002 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>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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