Table of Contents

1. Document Information
   
   
2. Preface
   
   
3. What's New in MDB
   
   
4. Who Should Use This Book
   
   
5. Before You Read This Book
   
   
6. How This Book Is Organized
   
   
7. Related Books and Papers
   
   
8. Documentation, Support, and Training
   
   
9. Typographic Conventions
   
   
10. Shell Prompts in Command Examples
    
    
11. Modular Debugger Overview
    
    
12. Introduction
    
    
13. MDB Features
    
    
14. Using MDB
    
    
15. Future Enhancements
    
    
16. Debugger Concepts
    
    
17. Building Blocks
    
    
18. Modularity
    
    
19. MDB Language Syntax
    
    
20. Syntax
    
    
21. Commands
    
    
22. Comments
    
    
23. Arithmetic Expansion
    
    
24. Quoting
    
    
25. Shell Escapes
    
    
26. Variables
    
    
27. Symbol Name Resolution
    
    
28. Dcmd and Walker Name Resolution
    
    
29. Dcmd Pipelines
    
    
30. Formatting Dcmds
    
    
31. Using MDB Commands Interactively
    
    
32. Command Reentry
    
    
33. Inline Editing
    
    
34. Keyboard Shortcuts
    
    
35. Output Pager
    
    
36. Signal Handling
    
    
37. Built-In Commands
    
    
38. Built-In dcmds
    
    
39. Execution Control
    
    
40. Execution Control
    
    
41. Event Callbacks
    
    
42. Thread Support
    
    
43. Built-in dcmds
    
    
44. Interaction With exec
    
    
45. Interaction with Job Control
    
    
46. Process Attach and Release
    
    
47. Kernel Execution Control
    
    
48. Booting, Loading, and Unloading
    
    
49. Terminal Handling
    
    
50. Debugger Entry
    
    
51. Processor-Specific Features
    
    
52. Kernel Debugging Modules
    
    
53. Generic Kernel Debugging Support (genunix)
    
    
54. Interprocess Communication Debugging Support (ipc)
    
    
55. Loopback File System Debugging Support (lofs)
    
    
56. Internet Protocol Module Debugging Support (ip)
    
    
57. Kernel Runtime Link Editor Debugging Support (krtld)
    
    
58. USB Framework Debugging Support (uhci)
    
    
59. USB Framework Debugging Support (usba)
    
    
60. x86: x86 Platform Debugging Support (unix)
    
    
61. SPARC: sun4u Platform Debugging Support (unix)
    
    
62. Debugging With the Kernel Memory Allocator
    
    
63. Getting Started: Creating a Sample Crash Dump
    
    
64. Allocator Basics
    
    
65. Kernel Memory Caches
    
    
66. Detecting Memory Corruption
    
    
67. Memory Allocation Logging
    
    
68. Advanced Memory Analysis
    
    
69. Module Programming API
    
    
70. Debugger Module Linkage
    
    
71. Dcmd Definitions
    
    
72. Walker Definitions
    
    
73. API Functions
    
    
74. Options
    
    
75. Summary of Command-line Options
    
    
76. Operands
    
    
77. Exit Status
    
    
78. Environment Variables
    
    
79. Notes
    
    
80. Warnings
    
    
81. Notes
    
    
82. Transition From adb and kadb
    
    
83. Command-line Options
    
    
84. Syntax
    
    
85. Watchpoint Length Specifier
    
    
86. Address Map Modifier
    
    
87. Output
    
    
88. Deferred Breakpoints
    
    
89. x86: I/O Port Access
    
    
90. Transition From crash
    
    
91. Command-line Options
    
    
92. Input in MDB
    
    
93. Functions
    
    
94. Index
    
    
95. Index
    
    
96. Index
    
    
97. Index
    
    
98. Index