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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com>,
	Powerpc Linux <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KGDB bugreports <kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: PPC KGDB changes and some help?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:45:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40158A88.7070007@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040126204631.GB32525@stop.crashing.org>

Tom Rini wrote:
> 
>>There is a real danger of passing signal info back to gdb as it will want 
>>to try to deliver the signal which is a non-compute in most kgdbs in the 
>>field.  I did put code in the mm-kgdb to do just this, but usually the 
>>arrival of such a signal (other than SIGTRAP) is the end of the kernel.  
>>All that is left is to read the tea leaves.
> 
> 
> The gdb I've been testing this with knows better than to try and send a
> singal back, so that's not a worry.  The motivation behind doing this
> however is along the lines of "if it ain't broke, don't remove it".  The
> original stub was getting all of this information correctly, so why stop
> doing it?
> 
You sure.  If so what gdb?  And how does it know?  I suppose you could tell it 
with a script, but then what if one forgets?

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040120172708.GN13454@stop.crashing.org>
     [not found] ` <200401211946.17969.amitkale@emsyssoft.com>
     [not found]   ` <20040121153019.GR13454@stop.crashing.org>
2004-01-21 16:53     ` PPC KGDB changes and some help? Amit S. Kale
2004-01-21 18:42       ` Tom Rini
2004-01-21 19:21         ` Tom Rini
2004-01-21 19:22           ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 17:44             ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 18:05               ` Tom Rini
2004-01-23 22:46                 ` Tom Rini
2004-01-23 23:38                   ` George Anzinger
2004-01-26 20:46                     ` Tom Rini
2004-01-26 21:27                       ` George Anzinger
2004-01-26 21:42                         ` Tom Rini
2004-01-26 22:35                           ` George Anzinger
2004-01-26 21:45                       ` George Anzinger [this message]
2004-01-26 22:06                         ` Tom Rini
2004-01-27  9:05                           ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-24  0:48                   ` George Anzinger
2004-01-24  3:47                   ` [PATCH] Kgdb dwarf2 for asm George Anzinger
2004-01-27 18:22                   ` PPC KGDB changes and some help? Tom Rini
2004-01-21 22:03           ` Tom Rini
2004-01-21 23:12           ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22 15:07             ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 15:25               ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-01-22 15:45                 ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 16:06                   ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-22 16:45                     ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 22:46                       ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22 22:52                         ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 23:09                           ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22 22:35                     ` George Anzinger
2004-01-23 17:08                     ` Tom Rini
2004-01-22 21:54                   ` George Anzinger
2004-01-26 21:32           ` Tom Rini
2004-01-27  8:59             ` Amit S. Kale
2004-01-21 23:05         ` George Anzinger
2004-01-22 15:03           ` Tom Rini

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