From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:04:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FFD1B8.8050002@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130123120116.GC4256@pd.tnic>
On 2013-01-23 13:01, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:44:04PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> I wonder why we should do this, remove the convenience of the
>> automatic script setup, but I'm open for arguments.
>
> Only one: you get the symlink
>
> vmlinux-gdb.py -> /..../scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
>
> created automatically when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled and people who
> enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for other reasons and don't want to use gdb to
> debug the kernel don't need it but will get it anyway.
A lot of stuff is generated in the output directories during the kernel
build, so I wonder if this one really matters.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-23 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 17:06 [PATCH v4 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 11:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 11:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 12:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 12:04 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:19 ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:20 ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] scripts/gdb: Add task iteration helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu lookup Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Andi Kleen
2013-01-22 8:36 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 22:06 ` Ben Widawsky
2013-01-21 22:15 ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-22 8:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 11:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 11:40 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-24 20:18 ` [PATCH v4 14/13] scripts/gdb: Add basic documentation Jan Kiszka
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