Re: [patch] KGDB for Real-Time Preemption systems

[George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have put a version of KGDB for x86 RT kernels here:
>>http://source.mvista.com/~ganzinger/
>>
>>The common_kgdb_cfi_.... stuff creates debug records for entry.S and 
>>friends so that you can "bt" through them.  Apply in this order: 
>>Ingo's patch kgdb-ga-rt.patch common_kgdb_cfi_annotations.patch
>>
>>This is, more or less, the same kgdb that is in Andrew's mm tree 
>>changed to fix the RT issues.
> 
> 
> great. For the time being i wont add it to the -RT tree (because KGDB is 
> not destined for upstream merging it seems), but it sure is a useful 
> development/debugging add-on.

I agree on not adding it.  Tom Rini is working on a version the Andrew 
seems inclined to merge.  When that happens I will most likely put 
together enhancements to it to bring it up to what this one does. 
Meanwhile I am trying to capture some of Tom's changes in this one. 
Also, it is MUCH easier for me to maintain as a seperate patch.


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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
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