cvs commit: src/usr.bin/kdump kdump.c

[Alfred Perlstein]

* John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> [070105 13:07] wrote:
> 
> Sample before and after from a trivial case:
> 
> old:
>   9320 kdump    USER  12  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   9320 kdump    USER  12  00 00 00 00 01 04 00 00 00 08 21 08
> 
> new:
>   9320 kdump    USER  malloc_init()
>   9320 kdump    USER  0x8210800 = malloc(1025)
> 
> I also have patches I use at work that allow kdump to recognize a 32-bit 
> malloc utrace on an amd64 machine (for when you run an i386 binary) if folks 
> are interested.  I'm not sure how many i386 on amd64 hacks we want in the 
> official CVS tree. :)

I think a lot, a LOT of time people want to run intel on amd64,
making that easier will make people happy.

> I also have another set of patches to add various utrace(2) events to the 
> runtime linker as well as logic in kdump to parse them that I hope to commit 
> in the near future.

Nice.

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