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* [PATCH 0/11] Rework guest debug interface / x86 debug register support -v2
@ 2008-05-26 22:05 Jan Kiszka
  2008-05-26 22:09 ` [PATCH 1/11] QEMU/KVM: Fix deadlocks in monitor and debugger Jan Kiszka
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From: Jan Kiszka @ 2008-05-26 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-devel; +Cc: Avi Kivity, Hollis Blanchard, Jerone Young, Joerg Roedel

Hi,

here comes the full series of patches to fix and enhance debugging
support of KVM. After completing hardware breakpoint support and
reorganizing the patches, I felt like I should post them all in a single
series, because my queue became quite long and potentially confusing in
the meantime.

The major changes or this revision are full hardware-assisted guest
debugging and a lot of refactoring on the userspace side. The latter was
motivated by an increasing inconsistency regarding which arch-specific
part should be handled in libkvm and which by qemu. I decided to push
everything into qemu, keeping the lib small (and easier to overcome one
day :->).

When I was trying to test the hardware breakpoint/watchpoint support
with gdb, the first result with quite disappointing: current gdb is
unable to handle such breakpoint remotely. There is hope, latest cvs has
it fixed - but suffers from other regressions which make it unusable for
kernel debugging. In the meantime, you can still write your own
"maintenance packet Z2,..." requests. :p

To give an overview of the series:
 Patch 1..3  - Critical debugger fixes for KVM (should be merge in any
               case)
 Patch 4..5  - QEMU refactoring, required for following KVM patches, but
               also of generic use for QEMU (rebase and feature
               enhancements are required to get them in shape for
               upstream)
 Patch 6..8  - New guest debugging interface and SMP support
 Patch 9..11 - Kernel-side changes for new guest debugging interface and
               proper x86 debug register virtualization

Jan

PS: If anyone wants to be dropped from CC, just let me know.



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2008-05-26 22:05 [PATCH 0/11] Rework guest debug interface / x86 debug register support -v2 Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:09 ` [PATCH 1/11] QEMU/KVM: Fix deadlocks in monitor and debugger Jan Kiszka
2008-05-27  9:36   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-27 13:00     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-27 13:09       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-26 22:09 ` [PATCH 2/11] QEMU/KVM: Cleanup and improve kvm_load/save_registers usage Jan Kiszka
2008-06-09 19:16   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-12 12:38     ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-26 22:09 ` [PATCH 3/11] QEMU/KVM: Proper vm_stop on debug events Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:09 ` [PATCH 4/11] QEMU: Enhance cpu_break/watchpoint API and gdbstub integration Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 5/11] QEMU: Improve SMP debugging support Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 6/11] QEMU/KVM: Introduce single vcpu pause/resume Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 7/11] QEMU/KVM: New guest debugging interface Jan Kiszka
2008-05-27 18:31   ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 8/11] QEMU/KVM: Support for SMP guest debugging Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 9/11] KVM: New guest debugging interface Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 10/11] KVM-x86: Properly virtualize debug registers Jan Kiszka
2008-05-26 22:10 ` [PATCH 11/11] KVM-x86: Wire up host-managed " Jan Kiszka
2008-05-27  9:50 ` [PATCH 0/11] Rework guest debug interface / x86 debug register support -v2 Avi Kivity
2008-05-27 10:44   ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-27 18:46   ` Hollis Blanchard

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