docs/150255: dtrace description should mention makeoptions DEBUG=-g
Alexander Pyhalov
alp at rsu.ru
Fri Sep 3 18:30:02 UTC 2010
>Number: 150255
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: dtrace description should mention makeoptions DEBUG=-g
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 03 18:30:02 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Alexander Pyhalov
>Release: 9.0-current
>Organization:
SFEDU
>Environment:
FreeBSD freebsd.cc.rsu.ru 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3: Fri Sep 3 22:40:30 MSD 2010 root at freebsd.cc.rsu.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MyKern i386
>Description:
Documentation in handbook doesn't clearly state that "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" option should be present in kernel config for DTrace to work.
In the absence of this options all (or most) dtrace scripts complain on unknown uid_t symbol in psinfo.d, because this symbol is not found in kernel debugging info. This can be seen with ctfdump - kernel contains CTF data but no info about uid_t (and some other symbols).
>How-To-Repeat:
Create kernel config with options KDTRACE_HOOKS and DDB_CTF but without "makeoptions DEBUG=-g", then execute "make kernel WITH_CTF=1 KERNCONF=YourConfig".
>Fix:
Document this behavior.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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