Re: Understanding panic and exit in the kernel

2011-09-07 Thread mdf
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Martin wrote: > > > On 2011-09-07 12:53, m...@freebsd.org wrote: >>> >>> For my immediate purposes, I'd be happy with any way in which I could >>> >  brutally kill the kernel and force it to the debugger, say by >>> > replacing the >>> >  panic call with a

Re: Understanding panic and exit in the kernel

2011-09-07 Thread Charlie Martin
On 2011-09-07 12:53, m...@freebsd.org wrote: For my immediate purposes, I'd be happy with any way in which I could > brutally kill the kernel and force it to the debugger, say by replacing the > panic call with a printf followed by "1/0;". But I'm a little confused by > the panic.c code --

Re: Understanding panic and exit in the kernel

2011-09-07 Thread mdf
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Charlie Martin wrote: > I'm still pursuing a FreeBSD bug in "7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD" -- and yes, we > know this is wildly out of date, but it's not feasible to upgrade right now > -- and while trying to backport a fix suggested here > http://permalink.gmane.org/gma