8340d5bcae
- dumpon utility has not used kern.dumpdev sysctl
since rev. 1.14 (sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c) when phk@
updated it to use the DIOCSKERNELDUMP ioctl [1]
- remove obsolete reference to sysctl(3)
While I am there, fix two style nits:
- use .Nm instead of `dumpon'
- change NOTES to IMPLEMENTATION NOTES, to bring
it in line with recommended section headings in
mdoc(7)
Original patch by: Martin Faxer <gmh003532brfmasthugget.se> [1]
PR: docs/39293
Approved and Reviewed by: des (mentor), re (scottl, bmah)
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" From: @(#)swapon.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 12, 1995
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.Dt DUMPON 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm dumpon
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.Nd "specify a device for crash dumps"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl v
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.Ar special_file
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.Nm
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.Op Fl v
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.Ar off
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility is used to specify a device where the kernel can save a crash dump in
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the case of a panic.
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.Pp
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Calls to
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.Nm
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normally occur from the system multi-user initialization file
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.Pa /etc/rc ,
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controlled by the
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.Dq dumpdev
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variable in the boot time configuration file
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.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
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.Pp
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For most systems the size of the specified dump device must be at least
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the size of physical memory.
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Even though an additional header is added to the dump,
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the BIOS for a platform typically holds back some memory, so it is not usually
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necessary to size the dump device larger than the actual amount of RAM
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available in the machine.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl v
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flag causes
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.Nm
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to be verbose about its activity.
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.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
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Since a
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.Xr panic 9
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condition may occur in a situation
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where the kernel cannot trust its internal representation
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of the state of any given file system,
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one of the system swap devices,
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and
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.Em not
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a device containing a file system,
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should be used as the dump device.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility operates by opening
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.Ar special_file
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and making a
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.Dv DIOCSKERNELDUMP
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.Xr ioctl 2
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request on it to save kernel crash dumps.
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If
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.Ar special_file
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is the text string:
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.Dq Li off ,
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.Nm
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performs a
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.Dv DIOCSKERNELDUMP
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.Xr ioctl 2
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on
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.Pa /dev/null
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and thus instructs the kernel not to save crash dumps.
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.Pp
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Since
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.Nm
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cannot be used during kernel initialization, the
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.Va dumpdev
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variable of
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.Xr loader 8
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must be used to enable dumps for system panics which occur
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during kernel initialization.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fstab 5 ,
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.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr loader 8 ,
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.Xr rc 8 ,
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.Xr savecore 8 ,
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.Xr swapon 8 ,
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.Xr panic 9
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width "/dev/{ad,da}?s?b" -compact
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.It Pa /dev/{ad,da}?s?b
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standard swap areas
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.It Pa /etc/rc.conf
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boot-time system configuration
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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Because the file system layer is already dead by the time a crash dump
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is taken, it is not possible to send crash dumps directly to a file.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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utility appeared in
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.Fx 2.1 .
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