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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
 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-31 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <446E0B4B.9070003@ru.mvista.com>
     [not found] ` <200605241240.05313.amitkale@linsyssoft.com>
     [not found]   ` <4474A1D0.30807@ru.mvista.com>
     [not found]     ` <200605251207.27699.amitkale@linsyssoft.com>
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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