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Date:      Sat, 9 May 2015 11:09:01 -0700
From:      Jeff Meegan <jeffm@frob.org>
To:        sbruno@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get anything useful out of kgdb?
Message-ID:  <406EAA27-D825-408B-985E-DC3FFE746473@frob.org>
In-Reply-To: <554E4BD1.1030802@ignoranthack.me>
References:  <554E41EE.2010202@ignoranthack.me> <554E4BD1.1030802@ignoranthack.me>

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You could try -O0, but also if you just care about txr, go up
to frame 12 where txr initialized to the context arg to=20
em_handle_tx() and print it out there.

=E2=80=94j

> On May 9, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me> =
wrote:
>=20
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> On 05/09/15 10:20, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>=20
>> tl;dr  What are the kernel config options to get good output of
>> kgdb?
>>=20
>>=20
>> I'm trying to get the ability to debug and display internal
>> variables, as one does, with kgdb.  I'm *must* be doing this wrong
>> as I cannot get any useful output from accessing variables that
>> were JUST accessed in order to invoke a panic() that I have
>> inserted.  This is a GENERIC kernel without INVARIANTS and without
>> WITNESS:
>>=20
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/wtf_kgdb.txt
>>=20
>> I seem to have debug enabled and am able to browse source, but I=20
>> obviously haven't compiled correctly as things are optimized out.
>>=20
>=20
> Just to see what the arguments to make are when building, I touched
> if_em.c and did a NOCLEAN rebuild.
>=20
> What I see is this:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/wtf_make.txt
>=20
> Should -02 and -g do anything useful here when compiling?  Do I need
> to drop the optimization flags?
>=20
> sean
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