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* MFC r272958, r273006:pfg2014-10-181-3/+3
| | | | | | ddb: space/tab fixes and ANSI-fy function declarations. No functional change.
* Small textdump enhancements.alfred2012-11-011-6/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow textdumps to be called explicitly from DDB. If "dump" is called in DDB and textdumps are enabled then abort the dump and tell the user to turn off textdumps. Add options TEXTDUMP_PREFERRED to turn textdumps on by default. Add options TEXTDUMP_VERBOSE to be a bit more verbose while textdumping. Reviewed by: rwatson MFC after: 2 weeks
* Place hostnames and similar information fully under the prison system.jamie2009-05-291-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The system hostname is now stored in prison0, and the global variable "hostname" has been removed, as has the hostname_mtx mutex. Jails may have their own host information, or they may inherit it from the parent/system. The proper way to read the hostname is via getcredhostname(), which will copy either the hostname associated with the passed cred, or the system hostname if you pass NULL. The system hostname can still be accessed directly (and without locking) at prison0.pr_host, but that should be avoided where possible. The "similar information" referred to is domainname, hostid, and hostuuid, which have also become prison parameters and had their associated global variables removed. Approved by: bz (mentor)
* Collect N identical (or near identical) mkdumpheader() implementations intopeter2008-10-011-26/+2
| | | | one, as threatened in the comment. Textdump magic can be passed in.
* Commit step 1 of the vimage project, (network stack)bz2008-08-171-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | virtualization work done by Marko Zec (zec@). This is the first in a series of commits over the course of the next few weeks. Mark all uses of global variables to be virtualized with a V_ prefix. Use macros to map them back to their global names for now, so this is a NOP change only. We hope to have caught at least 85-90% of what is needed so we do not invalidate a lot of outstanding patches again. Obtained from: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/... Reviewed by: brooks, des, ed, mav, julian, jamie, kris, rwatson, zec, ... (various people I forgot, different versions) md5 (with a bit of help) Sponsored by: NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation X-MFC after: never V_Commit_Message_Reviewed_By: more people than the patch
* Use dump_write() instead of direct calls to di->dumper() in textdumps.rwatson2008-01-311-3/+3
| | | | | | | Textdumps already do pretty much the same sanity checking, but abstractions and seatbelts are both useful. MFC after: 2 months
* Refine textdump comments slightly.rwatson2008-01-101-10/+12
| | | | MFC after: 3 months
* Add textdump(4) facility, which provides an alternative form of kernelrwatson2007-12-261-0/+555
dump using mechanically generated/extracted debugging output rather than a simple memory dump. Current sources of debugging output are: - DDB output capture buffer, if there is captured output to save - Kernel message buffer - Kernel configuration, if included in kernel - Kernel version string - Panic message Textdumps are stored in swap/dump partitions as with regular dumps, but are laid out as ustar files in order to allow multiple parts to be stored as a stream of sequentially written blocks. Blocks are written out in reverse order, as the size of a textdump isn't known a priori. As with regular dumps, they will be extracted using savecore(8). One new DDB(4) command is added, "textdump", which accepts "set", "unset", and "status" arguments. By default, normal kernel dumps are generated unless "textdump set" is run in order to schedule a textdump. It can be canceled using "textdump unset" to restore generation of a normal kernel dump. Several sysctls exist to configure aspects of textdumps; debug.ddb.textdump.pending can be set to check whether a textdump is pending, or set/unset in order to control whether the next kernel dump will be a textdump from userspace. While textdumps don't have to be generated as a result of a DDB script run automatically as part of a kernel panic, this is a particular useful way to use them, as instead of generating a complete memory dump, a simple transcript of an automated DDB session can be captured using the DDB output capture and textdump facilities. This can be used to generate quite brief kernel bug reports rich in debugging information but not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely synchronized source code. Most textdumps I generate are less than 100k including the full message buffer. Using textdumps with an interactive debugging session is also useful, with capture being enabled/disabled in order to record some but not all of the DDB session. MFC after: 3 months
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