DTrace can be used to find the root cause of a BAD TRAP Solaris 10 system crash. Most BAD TRAP panics are caused by one kernel module clobbering kernel memory containing a pointer. When this now bad pointer gets used later, the result is a BAD TRAP kernel panic. One possible way to find the root cause of this type of system crash is to turn on kernel memory auditing through the kmem_flags kernel tunable. Common memory access bugs that can be detected with these flags are:
