On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:22 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32 > > this is my hack of vx32. > Were all of the binaries within recompiled against this code? Running 9vx on my iMac is pretty smooth! Dave > > It includes a ram block device, but more importantly, it supports the > system call trace code. > > In the 'root' of the repo is the syscalltrace directory; cd in there > to make the syscalltrace binary. > > Comments and improvements welcome. Noah wrote the first version of > syscalltrace.c. Thanks to Russ for suggestions that led to substantial > improvements in the code; it's still not good enough (Jim McKie made a > really great improvement which you can see in the 9k kernel) and I > don't think it yet belongs in the main vx32 tree. That said, you can > get a *lot* of work done with this version, and we've found > syscalltrace very helpful on the bg/p effort, so I wanted to make sure > people could see it. I've seen questions go by on this list lately > that use of syscalltrace might have answered. I use syscalltrace all > the time now when I hit a problem I don't understand. It would be > helpful for those debugging cpu and auth problems, I think. > > Thanks to Russ, Jim, and Noah for their help and improvements. Any > errors are mine. > > ron > >
