From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: piet@bluelane.com, "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com>,
"Vladimir A. Barinov" <vbarinov@ru.mvista.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6 x86_64 kgdb issue
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:59:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606010059.17859.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060531223515.GE31210@smtp.west.cox.net>
On Thursday 01 June 2006 00:35, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 17:03, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:13:53AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > Yes because you if modular works you don't need to build it in.
> > > >
> > > > Modular was working at some point on x86-64 for kdb and the original 2.6
> > > > version of kgdb was nearly there too.
> > >
> > > FWIW, the only change the current version of kgdb makes that would
> > > prevent it from being totally modular is the debugger_active check in
> >
> > Can you post the patch and a description?
>
> The change is a simple if (atomic_read(&debugger_active)) return right
> at the start. And I'm embarrased to say the change predates me on the
> project so I'm not 100% sure on the lineage and it might be totally
> bogus now.
And why do you need it? Where does the debugger call might sleep?
-Andi
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2006-05-31 4:45 ` linux-2.6 x86_64 kgdb issue Piet Delaney
2006-05-31 5:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-31 6:46 ` Piet Delaney
2006-05-31 7:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-31 8:39 ` Piet Delaney
2006-05-31 9:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-31 15:03 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-31 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-31 22:35 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-31 22:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-31 22:52 ` Piet Delaney
2006-05-31 23:03 ` Piet Delaney
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