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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason@zx2c4.com,
	aconole@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org, pmladek@suse.com, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] pr_emerg add WARN_XX() debugger options
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:40:48 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1602021932550.2715@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ekxPUTxpXbWtCWoYe7EqqZO2Ey2ko9YHivwQe3nApninHCvA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Jeffrey Merkey wrote:

> If a debugger is loaded it will not crash, just enter the debugger.
> But yes, it will int3 if set and no debugger has been loaded to handle
> the int3 condition.  Hmmm.  Maybe its better just to skip calling
> pr_emerg and put this logic as a single call somewhere else.

 What's the point?  If you have a debugger loaded, then surely you can 
just set a breakpoint anywhere you like using whatever user interface the 
debugger provides for setting breakpoints.  You can actually set any 
number of software breakpoints you like wherever you like, depending on 
what you actually want to debug.  I fail to see why it would have to be 
prearranged within the kernel -- do you have a configuration where you run 
the kernel from ROM by any chance?

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 23:35 [PATCH v4 1/4] Add BUG_XX() debugging options Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-01 23:35 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] Add WARN_XX() " Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-01 23:35 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] Add BUG_XX() and " Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-01 23:35 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] pr_emerg add WARN_XX() debugger options Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-02  1:58   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-02-02  2:01     ` Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-02 19:40       ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2016-02-02 22:18         ` Jeffrey Merkey

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