From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: amitkale@emsyssoft.com, ak@suse.de, pavel@ucw.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, piggy@timesys.com,
trini@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:52:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40451E50.4080806@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302132751.255b9807.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
>> Often it is not clear just why we are in the stub, given that
>>we trap such things as kernel page faults, NMI watchdog, BUG macros and such.
>
>
> Yes, that can be confusing. A little printk on the console prior to
> entering the debugger would be nice.
That assumes that one can do a printk and not run into a lock. Far better
IMNSHO is to provide a simple way to get it from gdb. One can then even provide
a gdb macro to print the relevant source line and its surrounds. I my lighter
moments I call this the comefrom macro :) In my kgdb it would look like:
l * kgdb_info.called_from
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 23:53 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-05 3:11 ` kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 Andi Kleen
2004-02-05 12:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-05 17:50 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-02-06 2:20 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 11:58 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-02-06 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 13:05 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-02-06 13:24 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-06 13:44 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-02-28 0:05 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-01 9:38 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-03-02 21:10 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-02 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-02 23:52 ` George Anzinger [this message]
2004-03-03 5:08 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-03-03 16:06 ` Tom Rini
2004-03-04 0:42 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-03 10:05 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-04 0:43 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-04 0:50 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-04 5:06 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-03-04 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 5:29 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-03-04 5:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 20:54 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-04 21:03 ` Tom Rini
2004-03-04 23:15 ` George Anzinger
2004-03-04 13:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-11 14:52 ` Amit S. Kale
2004-02-10 21:56 ` George Anzinger
2004-02-13 19:42 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-12 1:34 ` George Anzinger
2004-02-12 8:33 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-27 21:09 ` Piet Delaney
2004-02-27 21:58 ` George Anzinger
2004-02-27 23:33 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 23:01 Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-04 23:24 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-04 23:55 ` Tom Rini
2004-02-05 0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-05 0:23 ` Tom Rini
2004-02-20 0:15 ` George Anzinger
2004-02-04 23:39 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-02-04 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-05 1:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-20 0:24 ` George Anzinger
2004-02-05 0:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 23:52 ` Tom Rini
2004-02-05 0:17 ` Paul Mundt
2004-02-05 0:32 ` Tom Rini
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