From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: GDB + KVM Debug Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:26:39 +0300 Message-ID: <4AB12DDF.3010006@redhat.com> References: <20090916100438.GA30036@redhat.com> <200909161708.46412.arnd@arndb.de> <20090916151922.GD5513@redhat.com> <200909161727.26153.arnd@arndb.de> <4158487B9DEE0647BA23911D1C22795712DFC42545@orsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> <4AB10C17.7090708@siemens.com> <4158487B9DEE0647BA23911D1C22795712DFC425C7@orsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> <4AB1143A.5050606@siemens.com> <4AB11D46.6020101@redhat.com> <4AB126DF.8090008@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Saksena, Abhishek" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45194 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752474AbZIPS0o (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:26:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AB126DF.8090008@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/16/2009 08:56 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Can you post this against qemu-kvm, with a switch to disable it in case >> it interferes with a theoretical fixed gdb? >> > Any fix for gdb will require some work on the qemu side as well to > actually use it (we will have to transfer additional system registers to > tell gdb what mode the target is in). So this kind of interference is > excluded. > > However, if desired, I can try to find a smart way of adding a disable > switch to take care of theoretical interferences in today's use cases. > In that case I think a switch isn't necessary. I'll leave it to you, you certainly have a lot more knowledge than me in this matter. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.