From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26 2/25] mdb: Merkey's Kernel Debugger
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:45:47 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45269.166.70.238.45.1217987147.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080806020152.GA24801@one.firstfloor.org>
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:24:20PM -0600, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
> wrote:
>>
>> I'll post some patches with these changes and submit it as a module. I
>> will of course need to patch the kernel to introduce the die notifiers
>> where
>> they are not and there's the issue of cross call NMI to stop other
>> processors on SMP.
>>
>> That's the real issues, Andi, is the xcall stuff for IPC to control all
>> the processors.
>
> NMIs have die notifiers too. That said a cleaner way would be to
> generalize
> the synchronization code already in kdump and reuse that.
>
> -Andi
>
I can get that done. debuggers as modules makes more sense anyway.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 2:10 jmerkey
2008-08-06 1:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-06 1:24 ` jmerkey
2008-08-06 2:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-06 1:45 ` jmerkey [this message]
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