Propose for Several Dump types
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Dec 14 23:51:24 PST 2004
In message <cd4370cf04121417446c96319f at mail.gmail.com>, Jun Su writes:
>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.
An ascii format summary is a _great_ format because people can email
us it without knowing anything else. We could in fact make it
a /etc/rc.conf tunable: "send_panic_reports=YES" and we would
receive it in email whenever a crash occured.
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