Announce: kdb v4.4 is available for kernel 2.6.18

Keith Owens
2006-09-20T05:37:43Z

Shiver me timbers, lads.

KDB (Linux Kernel Debugger) has been updated for kernel 2.6.18.

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/
ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/mirrors/oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/

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Current versions are :-

kdb-v4.4-2.6.18-common-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.18-i386-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.18-x86_64-1.bz2
kdb-v4.4-2.6.18-ia64-1.bz2

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-common-1.

2006-09-20 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-common-1.

2006-09-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-common-1.

2006-08-29 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Rewrite all backtrace code.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-common-2.

2006-08-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-common-1.

2006-08-08 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-common-1.

2006-08-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-common-1.

2006-07-18 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* 8250.c locking has been fixed so there is no need to break spinlocks
for keyboard entry.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-common-2.

2006-07-18 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-common-1.

2006-07-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Remove dead KDB_REASON codes.
* The main kdb() function is now always entered with interrupts
disabled, so there is no need to disable bottom halves.
* sparse cleanups.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-common-2.

2006-07-07 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-common-1.

2006-07-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Add KDB_REASON_CPU_UP and callbacks for cpus coming online.
* Relegate KDB_REASON_SILENT to KDB internal use only.
* Backout the v4.4-2.6.15-common-3 change that made KDB_REASON_SILENT
wait for cpus, the Dell Xeon problem has been fixed.
* notify_die() is not called for KDB_REASON_SILENT nor
KDB_REASON_CPU_UP, these events do not stay in KDB.
* Export kdb_current_task for kdbm_x86. SuSE patch
kdb-missing-export.diff
* Scale kdb_wait_for_cpus_secs by the number of online cpus.
* Delete kdb_enablehwfault, architectures now do their own setup.
* Delete kdba_enable_mce, architectures now do their own setup.
* Delete kdba_enable_lbr, kdba_disable_lbr, kdba_print_lbr,
page_fault_mca. Only ever implemented on x86, difficult to maintain
and rarely used in the field.
* Replace #ifdef KDB_HAVE_LONGJMP with #ifdef kdba_setjmp.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-common-2.

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-i386-1.

2006-09-20 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-i386-1.

2006-09-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-i386-1.

2006-08-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Add warning for problems when following alternate stacks.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-3.

2006-08-29 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Rewrite all backtrace code.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-2.

2006-08-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-1.

2006-08-08 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-i386-1.

2006-08-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-i386-1.

2006-07-18 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-i386-1.

2006-07-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Remove dead KDB_REASON codes.
* sparse cleanups.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-i386-2.

2006-07-07 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-i386-1.

2006-07-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Make KDB rendezvous on i386 a two stage approach.
* Clean up generation of KDB interrupt code.
* Move smp_kdb_stop() and smp_kdb_interrupt() to kdbasupport.c.
* Move setting of interrupt traps to kdbasupport.c.
* Remove KDB hooks from arch/i386/kernel smp.c, smpboot.c, i8259.c,
io_apic.c.
* Add KDB_REASON_CPU_UP support.
* Move per cpu setup to kdba_cpu_up().
* Rework support for 4K stacks to make backtrace more accurate.
* Add BTSP option to get the full backtrace, including kdb routines.
* Delete kdba_enable_mce, architectures now do their own setup.
* Delete kdba_enable_lbr, kdba_disable_lbr, kdba_print_lbr,
page_fault_mca. Only ever implemented on x86, difficult to maintain
and rarely used in the field.
* Replace #ifdef KDB_HAVE_LONGJMP with #ifdef kdba_setjmp.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-i386-2.

Changelog extract since kdb-v4.4-2.6.17-x86_64-1.

2006-09-20 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-x86_64-1.

2006-09-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-x86_64-1.

2006-08-30 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Do not print debugstackptr in cpu_pda, it will be deleted soon.
* Add KDB_ENTER().
* Add warning for problems when following alternate stacks.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-x86_64-3.

2006-08-29 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Rewrite all backtrace code.
* Add pt_regs and cpu_pda commands.
* Include patch to define orig_ist, to be removed once that patch is in
the community tree.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-x86_64-2.

2006-08-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-x86_64-1.

2006-08-08 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-x86_64-1.

2006-08-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-x86_64-1.

2006-07-18 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-x86_64-1.

2006-07-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* sparse cleanups
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-x86_64-2.

2006-07-07 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-x86_64-1.

2006-07-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Make KDB rendezvous on x86_64 a two stage approach.
* Move smp_kdb_stop() and smp_kdb_interrupt() to kdbasupport.c.
* Move setting of interrupt traps to kdbasupport.c.
* Add KDB_REASON_CPU_UP support.
* Move per cpu setup to kdba_cpu_up().
* Delete kdba_enable_mce, architectures now do their own setup.
* Delete kdba_enable_lbr, kdba_disable_lbr, kdba_print_lbr,
page_fault_mca. Only ever implemented on x86, difficult to maintain
and rarely used in the field.
* Replace #ifdef KDB_HAVE_LONGJMP with #ifdef kdba_setjmp.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-x86_64-2.

Changelog extract since kdb v4.4-2.6.17-ia64-1.

2006-09-20 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-ia64-1.

2006-09-15 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-ia64-1.

2006-08-29 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Rewrite all backtrace code.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-ia64-2.

2006-08-28 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-ia64-1.

2006-08-08 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-ia64-1.

2006-08-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-ia64-1.

2006-07-18 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-ia64-1.

2006-07-12 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Remove dead KDB_REASON codes.
* sparse cleanups.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-ia64-2.

2006-07-07 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-ia64-1.

2006-07-04 Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>

* Delete kdba_enable_lbr, kdba_disable_lbr, kdba_print_lbr,
page_fault_mca. Only ever implemented on x86, difficult to maintain
and rarely used in the field.
* Replace #ifdef KDB_HAVE_LONGJMP with #ifdef kdba_setjmp.
* kdb v4.4-2.6.17-ia64-2.

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