Debug still in kernel

[Jason Garrett]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and
>> noticed
>> >> that
>> >> > debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
>> >> > supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone
>> shed
>> >> > light on this subject?
>> >>
>> >> What makes you think debugging is still on?
>> >>
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>> > >From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
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>> > makeoptions     DEBUG=-g                # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug
>> > symbols
>> > options         PREEMPTION              # Enable kernel thread
>> preemption
>> >
>> > why are these still in GENERIC after release?
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>> I can confirm debug symbols is still in the kernel, but that is most
>> likely used for backtraces and debugging when a kernel panic happens.
>> This is instead of asking the user who had a kernel panic to rebuild
>> with debugging to debug it.
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>> PREEMPTION as I understand it should have been removed from the kernel
>> config file.  It should have been removed from the GENERIC config file
>> after RELENG_8_0_RELEASE tag is made.  I don't know what your tag is
>> when you update.  Perhaps you're copying or using a config file from
>> the BETA or RC days?
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>>
>> I'll help until I can't help no more with your issue.
>>
> Tim,
>
> Thanks for the quick responses. I downloaded 8.0 RELEASE iso disc 1 from
> ftp yesterday and did a fresh install, I then used csup to catch RELENG_8_0
> made world, built and installed kernel then installed world without
> problems.
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> sun# uname -ar
> FreeBSD sun.blah.blah 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat Mar  6
> 10:24:07 UTC 2010     root at sun.blah.blah:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
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> This is totally a fresh system installed from .iso yesterday.
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> If I can provide more info, please tell me.
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>> --Tim
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Anyone else? I don't mind commenting this stuff out of my own kernel, but
maybe a PR is needed here?