ktr port from FreeBSD
Diane Bruce
db at db.net
Fri Sep 3 10:07:28 PDT 2004
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:42:29AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :I have ported ktr (kernel trace routines) from FreeBSD (who took it from
> :BSD/OS).
. ..
> Also, 1024 entries is probably not nearly enough for a tracepoint
> utility to be useful. We'd need a lot of entries... a million or more,
> for it to be really useful, which implies dynamically allocating the
> array at boot time rather then declaring it static.
Thats exactly what the BSD/OS code did. It was allocated very early on
and was in fact, sizable from the boot prompt.
I think I'd like a peek at this port tbh.
- Diane
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