Re: [0/6] kgdb light

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:13:04 +0100

> this is the "kgdb light" tree that has been also posted at:
> 
>    http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/9/236
> 
> it is available at:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
> 
> See the shortlog below.

Thanks for keeping this work alive.

>  - removed the GTOD/clocksource hacks. If a user uses kdgb for extended
>    periods of time then GTOD clocksources can get out of sync and we
>    might fall back to other clocksources. That is the _right_ thing to 
>    do for the kernel, hacking it around to avoid kernel messages was
>    wrong.

I suspect something will however need to be done with watchdogs
and things of that nature which will get very confused if the
kernel sits in a breakpoint for a period of time whilst the user
looks at things from the kgdb prompt.

Just a heads up...