From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:57:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080806185719.GE24801@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4899DD9F.6020007@windriver.com>
> It depends how you look at the problem. I would agree that the use of
Yes I left the possibility of a "someone writing a in kernel kgdb UI"
out. Indeed that would be a possibility.
On the other hand I'm not sure it would save all that much code
versus just directly working on top of die notifiers.
Also the gdb stub interface definitely has its limitations too.
> > be quite possible to have a multitude of debuggers just using
> > them. In fact that's already the cases, kprobes and kgdb and
> > kdump are all kinds of debuggers using such hooks.
> >
>
> I would agree that the possibility exists to use the hooks directly,
It's not just a possibility, they are already used by multiple
debugger like subsystems. e.g. kprobes is certainly a kind of debugger.
-Andi
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2008-08-03 17:22 [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger jmerkey
[not found] ` <17494.166.70.238.46.1217784156.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com >
2008-08-03 19:36 ` jmerkey
2008-08-03 20:00 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-04 0:14 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-04 2:19 ` jmerkey
2008-08-04 13:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-04 14:33 ` jmerkey
2008-08-05 9:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-05 15:02 ` jmerkey
2008-08-05 15:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-05 15:19 ` jmerkey
2008-08-05 15:45 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-05 15:32 ` jmerkey
2008-08-05 16:38 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-05 16:45 ` jmerkey
2008-08-06 19:47 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-05 16:04 ` Chris Friesen
2008-08-05 16:39 ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 20:43 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-07 21:02 ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 21:04 ` jmerkey
2008-08-05 17:21 ` Paul Mundt
2008-08-05 17:10 ` jmerkey
2008-08-06 3:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-06 5:50 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-07 17:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-07 17:53 ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 18:08 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-08-07 19:47 ` Jay Lan
2008-08-07 19:34 ` jmerkey
2008-08-08 1:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-08-07 20:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-07 20:07 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-08-07 20:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-07 20:11 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-08-07 22:28 ` Keith Owens
2008-08-08 1:15 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-08-08 2:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-08 12:08 ` Cliff Wickman
2008-08-08 12:20 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-08 13:19 ` jmerkey
2008-08-08 15:06 ` Cliff Wickman
2008-08-08 13:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-08-08 14:50 ` Cliff Wickman
2008-08-08 16:57 ` Jay Lan
2008-08-11 12:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-08-08 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-11 13:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-08-11 13:11 ` jmerkey
2008-08-11 13:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-11 16:16 ` jmerkey
2008-08-18 9:12 ` Takenori Nagano
2008-08-08 8:40 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-06 13:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-08-06 13:37 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-06 13:54 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-08-06 13:45 ` jmerkey
2008-08-06 14:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-06 17:21 ` Jason Wessel
2008-08-06 18:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-07 12:45 ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 16:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-07 15:52 ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 17:04 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-08 0:28 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-11 10:36 ` jidong xiao
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