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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:04:52 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed
Message-ID:  <20010103150452.F4336@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101022319400.7168-100000@opal>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:22:49PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101021402410.38463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101022319400.7168-100000@opal>

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On Tuesday,  2 January 2001 at 23:22:49 -0500, Zhiui Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after
>>> runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop).  Is there a way
>>> to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing
>>> (with remote debugging or ddb)?
>>
>> kld debugging is a bit tricky.  Take a look at the debugging macros and
>> bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have
>> to calculate the appropriate offset to get to the KLD code in gdb.
>
> I already did this. I hope that I can find a way to know which process is
> running which part of the KLD code endlessly.

There are other macros in my .gdbinits which give you backtraces of
other processes.

Greg
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