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

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 1 16:30:21 UTC 2013


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

Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier (was away from mail).  This looks good 
to me.

-- 
John Baldwin


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