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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