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* [PATCH 00/14] x86/UV/KDB/NMI: Updates for NMI/KDB handler for SGI UV
@ 2013-03-12 19:38 Mike Travis
  2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 01/14] KDB: fix the interrupt of the KDB btc command Mike Travis
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  0 siblings, 14 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Mike Travis @ 2013-03-12 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason Wessel
  Cc: Dimitri Sivanich, Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin, Thomas Gleixner,
	Andrew Morton, kgdb-bugreport, x86, linux-kernel


These are kernel updates for the NMI/KDB handler on the SGI
Ultraviolet System.

* Fix problem where 'quit' to more> prompt doesn't stop output.
* Fix problem where reg dump shows letter 'd' in first column of
  every line.
* Up the number of LINES so the entire entry message is displayed.
* Moves KDB header defines to externally visable header so external
  KDB modules can be built.
* Exports some significant KDB functions for use by external modules.
* Consolidates the '| grep' support into new kdb_grep.c file.
* Updates kdb grep support to add some new options.
* Restablishes support for kdump from the kdb prompt.
* Adds back in the 'pshelp' command.
* Adds new entry into KGDB for systems with global NMI support.
* Adds support for external 'uvtrace' module.
* Updates NMI support for new internal system (SMM) NMI handler.
* Adds back the capability of NMI entering KDB/KGDB.

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* Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules
@ 2013-03-13 14:53 Scott Lurndal
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Scott Lurndal @ 2013-03-13 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: travis; +Cc: jason.wessel, linux-kernel, ebiederm

> Looking back at the KDB sources originally posted on oss.sgi.com I
> did not see any restrictions on the use of KDB.  How/why was that
> restriction granted and by whom?  Was SGI, the original copyright
> owner of KDB, asked or even informed of that decision?  I'm not
> trying to be a lawyer here, but someone decided (perhaps wrongly)
> that KDB should only be used by GPL modules.

At the time that I wrote that original KDB code at SGI, there was no
intent to make it only usable by GPL modules.  If anything, it was intended
to be more in the BSD-style (anyone can use it any way they like with
attribution) than the GPLv3-style (use it our way, or else).

But then, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL didn't exist then.  And I think its existence
is silliness on the part of several hard-core developers.

scott lurndal

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2013-03-12 19:38 [PATCH 00/14] x86/UV/KDB/NMI: Updates for NMI/KDB handler for SGI UV Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 01/14] KDB: fix the interrupt of the KDB btc command Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 02/14] KDB: fix errant character in KDB show regs Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 03/14] KDB: up the default LINES value Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 04/14] KDB: allow KDB modules to be external modules Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules Mike Travis
2013-03-12 20:09   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-12 22:03     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 22:13       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 22:26         ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 22:39       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-12 23:03         ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 20:23   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 22:01   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-12 22:08     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 06/14] KDB: consolidate KDB grep code Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 07/14] KDB: clean up KDB grep code, add some options Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 08/14] KDB: Restore call to kdump from KDB Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 09/14] KDB: Add pshelp command Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 10/14] KGDB/KDB: add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86/UV: Move NMI support Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86/UV: Add uvtrace support Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 13/14] x86/UV: Update UV support for external NMI signals Mike Travis
2013-03-14  7:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-20  6:13     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-21 11:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 14/14] x86/UV: Add call to KGDB/KDB from NMI handler Mike Travis
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2013-03-13 14:53 [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules Scott Lurndal

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