list of frame sniffers so that trapframes can be detected. The kluge
is needed because this version of gdb only supports appending a
sniffer to the list of sniffers and the moment kgdb gets a chance to
add its own frame sniffer, the target's default frame sniffer is
already in the list. Since the default frame sniffer claims any
frame thrown at it, kgdb's frame sniffer never gets to smell (a
process much akin to tasting, but with lesser chance of hurling :-)
This commit adds dummy frame sniffers that never claim a frame and
as such don't fix anything yet. However, we now have frame sniffers
and they are being called, so it's just a matter of adding meat to
the bones and we'll be able to properly unwind across trapframes.
MFC after: 1 week
it to recognise what ABI to use on amd64 (and possibly others) platform.
Display PID and process name as a part of the 'info threads' output, TIDs
alone are too confusing. Introduce new commmands 'tid <tid>' and 'proc <pid>'
to accompany gdb's default 'thread <thread num>' to make the task of switching
between different contexts easier.
is basicly a shell on top of libgdb that knows about kernel threads,
kernel modules and kvm(3). As the word "beginnings" implies, not
all of the features have been implemented yet. The tool is useful
and I'd like feedback on the taken route.
The simplest way to debug a kernel core file is:
kgdb -n 0
This opens /var/crash/vmcore.0 with the corresponding kernel in
the object directory (kernel.debug is used if it exists).
Typical things that need to be added are:
o Auto loading of kernel modules,
o Handling of trapframes so that backtraces can be taken across
them,
o Some fancy commands to extract useful information out of a core
file,
o Various (probably many) other things.
