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diff --git a/sys/tools/gdb/README.txt b/sys/tools/gdb/README.txt index 8c31565ddc42..ad1544912c3c 100644 --- a/sys/tools/gdb/README.txt +++ b/sys/tools/gdb/README.txt @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ be automatically loaded by kgdb when opening a vmcore, so if you add new GDB commands or functions, that script should be updated to import them, and you should document them here. +When improving these scripts, you can use the "kgdb-reload" command to reload +them from /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/gdb/*. + To provide some rudimentary testing, selftest.py tries to exercise all of the commands and functions defined here. To use it, run selftest.sh to panic the system. Then, create a kernel dump or attach to the panicked kernel, and invoke @@ -15,6 +18,8 @@ the script with "python import selftest" in (k)gdb. Commands: acttrace Display a backtrace for all on-CPU threads +kgdb-reload Reload all gdb modules, useful when developing the modules + themselves. Functions: $PCPU(<field>[, <cpuid>]) Display the value of a PCPU/DPCPU field |