Propose for Several Dump types

[Jun Su]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:48:44 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp
<phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <cd4370cf04121323433255da9d at mail.gmail.com>, Jun Su writes:
> 
> >MiniDump
> >=======
> >In a minidump, Register info, plus the crash stack is enough.
> 
> Make it an EVENTHANDLER() and dump it in ascii format.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't think the ascii format is a good choose. We can only dump the
information like the ones we can get in the KDB. My propose is storing
the pages that the stack point is in. Then we can get more useful
stack in the userland with the kernel file and kernel symbol.
> 
> That way any kernel subsystem can hook in a function and dump
> potentially relevant information.
> 
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