From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758246AbYBJHgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:36:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756106AbYBJHgp (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:36:45 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49957 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754227AbYBJHgp (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:36:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:37:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080209.233716.152271295.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@zip.com.au, tglx@linutronix.de, jason.wessel@windriver.com Subject: Re: [0/6] kgdb light From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080210071304.GA3788@elte.hu> References: <20080210071304.GA3788@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar 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...