Debug still in kernel

[Jason Garrett]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 17:06, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at navalradio.cl>wrote:

>
> Jason Garrett wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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:
> >>> >
> >>> >> 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?
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > >From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
> >>> >
> >>> > makeoptions     DEBUG=-g                # Build kernel with gdb(1)
> >>> debug
> >>> > symbols
> >>> > options         PREEMPTION              # Enable kernel thread
> >>> preemption
> >>> >
> >>> > why are these still in GENERIC after release?
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> This is totally a fresh system installed from .iso yesterday.
> >>
> >> If I can provide more info, please tell me.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> --Tim
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> > Anyone else? I don't mind commenting this stuff out of my own kernel, but
> > maybe a PR is needed here?
>
>
> In addition to what others have said:
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=66508&postcount=43
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Mikhail.
>
>
Thanks all, while I disagree that the debug line should be in the RELENG_8_0
branch, (useful for STABLE maybe and necessary for CURRENT) I guess I'll
have to deal with what I'm dealt.