Re: Re: how to dump kernel function trace in freebsd

I also uses db_trace_thread() to print other (not curthread) kthreads' function  stack.

2009-03-06 



beezarliu 



发件人： Marius_N黱nerich 
发送时间： 2009-03-06  04:01:05 
收件人： Robert Watson 
抄送： George Kumar; freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org 
主题： Re: how to dump kernel function trace in freebsd 
 
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 19:32, Robert Watson  <rwatson_at_freebsd.org > wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, George Kumar wrote:
>
> > In Linux I could use dump_stack() this to see how a function was called -
> > (In essence stack trace back ),
> >
> > Function() {
> > dump_stack();
> > .....
> > ...
> > }
> > What is the equivalent to dump_stack() in freebsd ?
> >
> > Is it kdb_backtrace() ? But for this I need to have kdb, ddb and kdb_trace
> > options in the config file ? is that correct ?
>
> For debugging purposes, kdb_backtrace() is the preferred interface, and as
> you point out, it depends on the kernel debugger being present.
>
> For more general (read: production) use, you can also capture, print, and
> generally manage stack traces using the stack(9) kernel interfaces. 燭his
> requires "options STACK" to be in the kernel configuration, but this is the
> default in 7.x and 8.x as it is required for procstat's -k command line
> option to work (which allows userspace to print out kernel stacks without
> using the kernel debugger). 燳ou can print stack traces to the console,
> print them to sbuf's to be used elsewhere, etc. 燢eep in mind that you'll
> want to resolve the symbols (using a string conversion function) fairly soon
> after the stack is captured so that symbol names in kernel modules are
> resolved before there's an opportunity for the module to be unloaded.

As said in the forums a fairly elegant solution is to use DTrace for
this task. Just add a SDT probe to the code in question and use
stack() in your DTrace script. Maybe the FBT provider already provides
an appropriate probe so you don't even need to add a SDT probe.
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