System, diagnose thyself: auto-documentation for crashes
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 2 15:34:51 UTC 2008
On Saturday 30 August 2008 04:48:24 am Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:26:16PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday 29 August 2008 05:07:15 pm Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > On Aug 29, 2008, at 10:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >
> > > > See /usr/sbin/crashinfo for a start. I have patches to enable it
> > > > from /etc/rc.d/savecore after generating a patch (still need to test
> > > > them
> > > > though).
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm not finding that anywhere, either on my systems or on Google.
> >
> > It's in HEAD.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/crashinfo/crashinfo.sh
>
> John, why not MFCing it ? MFC cannot break anything :), it is a standalone
> utility, and it definitely useful to have bigger test base.
It is on the list, I've just been a bit busy recently. :) Also, I didn't want
to merge it to 7.x until I fixed vmstat and iostat to work on core dumps
again.
> I propose to add some note to the manpage, explicitely mentioning
> experimantal status of utility, and the fact that both user interface
> and output format are subject to change. I imagine this is the only
> obstacle for MFC.
Actually, Y! has used a script like this in production for years, so I don't
foresee much in the way of changes in the future. One change would be to add
a run of ddb to dump the capture buffer from a crash dump. Another change
would be to re-enable w(1) if it ever becomes useful on crash dumps again.
--
John Baldwin
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