From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:37:43 +0000 Subject: Announce: kdb v4.4 is available for kernel 2.6.18 Message-Id: <9583.1158730663@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> List-Id: References: <12956.1085377697@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <12956.1085377697@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kdb@oss.sgi.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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/ Note: Due to a spam attack, the kdb@oss.sgi.com mailing list is now subscriber only. If you reply to this mail, you may wish to trim kdb@oss.sgi.com from the cc: list. 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-common-1. 2006-09-15 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-common-1. 2006-08-29 Keith Owens * Rewrite all backtrace code. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-common-2. 2006-08-28 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-common-1. 2006-08-08 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-common-1. 2006-08-04 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-common-1. 2006-07-18 Keith Owens * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-common-1. 2006-07-12 Keith Owens * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-common-1. 2006-07-04 Keith Owens * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-i386-1. 2006-09-15 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-i386-1. 2006-08-30 Keith Owens * Add warning for problems when following alternate stacks. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-3. 2006-08-29 Keith Owens * Rewrite all backtrace code. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-2. 2006-08-28 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-i386-1. 2006-08-08 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-i386-1. 2006-08-04 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-i386-1. 2006-07-18 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-i386-1. 2006-07-12 Keith Owens * Remove dead KDB_REASON codes. * sparse cleanups. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-i386-2. 2006-07-07 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-i386-1. 2006-07-04 Keith Owens * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-x86_64-1. 2006-09-15 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-x86_64-1. 2006-08-30 Keith Owens * 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 * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-x86_64-1. 2006-08-08 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-x86_64-1. 2006-08-04 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-x86_64-1. 2006-07-18 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-x86_64-1. 2006-07-12 Keith Owens * sparse cleanups * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-x86_64-2. 2006-07-07 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-x86_64-1. 2006-07-04 Keith Owens * 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 * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-ia64-1. 2006-09-15 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc7-ia64-1. 2006-08-29 Keith Owens * Rewrite all backtrace code. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-ia64-2. 2006-08-28 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc5-ia64-1. 2006-08-08 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc4-ia64-1. 2006-08-04 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc3-ia64-1. 2006-07-18 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc2-ia64-1. 2006-07-12 Keith Owens * Remove dead KDB_REASON codes. * sparse cleanups. * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-ia64-2. 2006-07-07 Keith Owens * kdb v4.4-2.6.18-rc1-ia64-1. 2006-07-04 Keith Owens * 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 iD8DBQFFENOmi4UHNye0ZOoRAie6AJ4qUi/SOPxkZpNmx5R2KaiiMajlPACeJ3Kq jVB5YpQzXhIPGxsGhAlvl24=TEzl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----