svn commit: r248836 - head/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 29 08:22:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 05:04:59PM +0000, Will Andrews wrote:
W> Author: will
W> Date: Thu Mar 28 17:04:59 2013
W> New Revision: 248836
W> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248836
W> 
W> Log:
W>   KGDB: Allow modules to be loaded from the specified kernel's directory.
W>   
W>   When looking up the absolute path for a kld, call find_kld_path() first.
W>   This enables locating the module in a different directory than the one
W>   stored in kernel memory.
W>   
W>   With this change, kgdb can now be run on a kernel & vmcore whose associated
W>   modules are located in the same directory as the kernel.  This makes
W>   independent triaging of problems much easier.
W>   
W>   This change also does not break the normal kgdb use case where no arguments
W>   are specified; in that case kgdb loads the running kernel and its modules.
W>   
W>   Reviewed by:	adrian
W>   Approved by:	ken (mentor)
W>   Sponsored by:	Spectra Logic
W>   MFC after:	1 month

Will, big thanks! This possibility was missed much.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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