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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, davidm@snapgear.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additional kgdb hooks
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:29:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419152D8.9030303@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041108144433.079f0f7c.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> dhowells@redhat.com wrote:
> 
>>The attached patch adds a couple of extra hooks by which kgdb or an equivalent
>>gdbstub can catch bad_page() and panic() invocations.
> 
> 
> Tom is valiantly flogging his way through a generic KGDB implementation.  I
> think it would be better to push ahead with that and to not put into
> generic code hooks which are specific to one arch's kgdb implementation.
> 
IMNSHO the trap should be in dump_stack().  That way it catches a bunch of 
things all at once.

Also, panic has a notify option that kgdb should use just like everybody else.

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-09 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08 14:32 [PATCH] Additional kgdb hooks dhowells
2004-11-08 16:41 ` Tom Rini
2004-11-08 16:55   ` David Howells
2004-11-08 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 23:29   ` George Anzinger [this message]
2004-11-19 22:06     ` Tom Rini

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