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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	utrace-devel <utrace-devel@redhat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] In-kernel gdbstub based on utrace Infrastructure.
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:11:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091201161132.GA24897@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091130152910.GB10331@redhat.com>


* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:16:50PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > [...]
> > kgdb exists here and today in the kernel and you cannot just build a 
> > facility that doesnt replace it and doesnt integrate well with it.
> 
> Surely you don't mean that: every non-kgdb facility in the kernel 
> meets that definition, even all debugging-related facilities such as 
> perf and ftrace.

Those facilities are not overlapping with kgdb though so my point doesnt 
apply to them. An in-kernel gdb server sure overlaps/extends kgdb 
though.

Btw., perf does meet that definition: it functionally replaces all 
facilities that it overlaps/extends - such as Oprofile. 'What about 
Oprofile?' was one of the first questions asked when we posted perf. 
'What about kgdb?' is the first question to the in-kernel gdb stub 
submission here, for similar reasons.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-30 12:03 [RFC] [PATCH] In-kernel gdbstub based on utrace Infrastructure Srikar Dronamraju
2009-11-30 12:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-30 12:32   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2009-11-30 12:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-30 13:19       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2009-11-30 13:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-30 14:05           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2009-11-30 15:03           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-11-30 15:11             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-30 15:16             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-30 15:29               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-12-01 16:11                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-12-01 17:00                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-12-01 17:09                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-01 17:45                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-12-01 21:15                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-08 21:58                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-12-10  7:41                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-10 15:08                               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-12-10 18:16                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-11  1:27                                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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