From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: [RFT] Rebased gdb/debug register patches Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:21:41 -0600 Message-ID: <1227644501.7434.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <492AC7FA.6090100@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:36493 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751976AbYKYUVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:21:43 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mAPKLLBF005422 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:21:21 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id mAPKLgeL153402 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:21:42 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mAPKLgeA028853 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:21:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <492AC7FA.6090100@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:27 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Hi, > > this is not yet the official submission, but a request for testing: > > I'm happy to announce the availability of a rebased patch series to > enhance KVM's guest debugging support as well as to add debug register > emulation. It was rebased because QEMU mainline recently accepted the > core of my corresponding bits and KVM has merged them over. A few > patches are still awaiting QEMU merge, and two of them are mandatory to > provide a clean foundation for the KVM changes - therefore this > intermediate step. > > To test the series, checkout the kernel bits from > > git://git.kiszka.org/linux-kvm.git gdb-queue > > and the user space part from > > git://git.kiszka.org/kvm-userspace.git gdb-queue > > Early feedback welcome, also before the final submission. And if someone > could look into AMD/SVM implementation, this would also be great > (unfortunately, there is no customer need for it ATM, thus no resources). Would you mind posting the patches here, to make feedback easier for the reviewers? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center