Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

Copyright

  Preface

  1.  Modular Debugger Overview

  2.  Debugger Concepts

  3.  Language Syntax

  4.  Interaction

  5.  Built-in Commands

  6.  Execution Control

  7.  Kernel Debugging Modules

  8.  Debugging With the Kernel Memory Allocator

Getting Started: Creating a Sample Crash Dump

Setting kmem_flags

Forcing a Crash Dump

Starting MDB

Allocator Basics

Buffer States

Transactions

Sleeping and Non-Sleeping Allocations

Kernel Memory Caches

Kernel Memory Caches

Detecting Memory Corruption

Freed Buffer Checking: 0xdeadbeef

Redzone: 0xfeedface

Uninitialized Data: 0xbaddcafe

Associating Panic Messages With Failures

Memory Allocation Logging

Buftag Data Integrity

The bufctl Pointer

Advanced Memory Analysis

Finding Memory Leaks

Finding References to Data

Finding Corrupt Buffers With ::kmem_verify

Allocator Logging Facility

  9.  Module Programming API

  A.  Options

  B.  Notes

  C.  Transition From adb

  D.  Transition From crash

  Index