svn commit: r206082 - in head: . share/man/man7 share/mk sys/conf

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> I think there's a reasonable argument that we should be compiling options 
>> KDTRACE_HOOKS into GENERIC, and likewise enabling CTF on the kernel by 
>> default in 9.x.  Part of the point of DTrace is that it "just works", and 
>> we already compile CDDL modules by default (and the hooks don't affect the 
>> license of the base kernel as far as I'm aware).  Any thoughts on this?
>
> I vaguely remember that there were some problems where CTF was incompatible 
> with debugging, and dumps from CTF enabled kernels were unhelpful.  Was this 
> true, and (more importantly), has it been fixed?

Hmm.  I'll investigate that this weekend, I also have recollections of some 
issues here, but haven't been running into them myself so perhaps they were 
fixed.

Robert