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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: Re: possible changes was Re: [PATCH] make domu_debug run-time option + fix int3 handling for MP
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:33:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1fa291705051613331d87ee7f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e354ab81554c8192bffce5d2b9214c2c@cl.cam.ac.uk>

I guess I don't see how this is any different from the per-process
ptrace flag on UN*X. Why is this any more of a kludge?

    -Kip

On 5/16/05, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > No differentiation is made between setting / removing int3 and other
> > modifications to memory in ptrace, /proc or the GDB stub protocol.
> > What you're
> > basically asking is to move debugger state into xen by having xen know
> > about who
> > put what breakpoints where. This is a non-trivial imposition and
> > incompatible
> > with the tools with which I am acquainted.
> 
> How else can we be sure what to do with int3 traps? Unless Xen can
> account for debugger-inserted int3's, any 'solution' will be a kludge.
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-16  1:25 [PATCH] make domu_debug run-time option + fix int3 handling for MP Kip Macy
2005-05-16 19:07 ` possible changes was " Kip Macy
2005-05-16 20:10   ` Keir Fraser
2005-05-16 20:26     ` Kip Macy
2005-05-16 20:28       ` Keir Fraser
2005-05-16 20:33         ` Kip Macy [this message]
2005-05-16 20:40           ` Keir Fraser
2005-05-16 20:46             ` Kip Macy
2005-05-16 21:55 ` Christian Limpach
2005-05-16 22:08   ` Kip Macy
2005-05-16 22:18     ` Christian Limpach
2005-05-16 22:23       ` Kip Macy

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