2002-08-09 06:48:48

by Keith Owens

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Subject: Announce: kdb v2.3 i386 updates for kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19

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Updated files in ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v2.3/

kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-i386-2.bz2
kdb-v2.3-2.4.19-i386-2.bz2

I also have kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-ia64-020722-2 in progress, to add support
for zx1 serial i/o. Not tested yet, it should be out tomorrow.

Changelog extracts between 2.4.1[89]-i386-1 and -2.

2.4.19-i386-2

2002-08-09 Keith Owens <[email protected]>

* Use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls for kdb if gcc supports it.
* .text.lock does not consume an activation frame.
* kdb v2.3-2.4.19-i386-2.

2.4.18-i386-2

2002-08-09 Keith Owens <[email protected]>

* Use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls for kdb if gcc supports it.
* 2.4.18 uses _text_lock_ not .text.lock.
* _text_lock does not consume an activation frame.
* kdb v2.3-2.4.18-i386-2.

When gcc optimizes sibling calls (tail recursion), kdb <= v2.3 cannot
decode the backtrace. Nor can the stack trace show what is really
going on with optimized sibling calls, the return addresses are
ambiguous. Until I can come up with an algorithm to trace through tail
recursion, activating kdb will set -fno-optimize-sibling-calls.

kdb v2.4 is planned as a big gcc catch up, to cope with the code
generated by more recent versions of gcc.

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2002-08-10 09:10:57

by Keith Owens

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Subject: Re: Announce: kdb v2.3 i386 updates for kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19

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Updated files in ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v2.3/

kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-common-2.bz2
kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-i386-3.bz2
kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-ia64-020722-2.bz2

kdb-v2.3-2.4.19-common-2.bz2
kdb-v2.3-2.4.19-i386-3.bz2

These add support for consoles using memory mapped IO instead of
inb/outb, based on a patch by David Mosberger. Primarily for ia64 zx1
serial i/o but it should work on other memory mapped consoles.

NOTE: These patches go together.

kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-i386-3 and kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-ia64-020722-2 need
kdb-v2.3-2.4.18-common-2, and vice versa.

kdb-v2.3-2.4.19-i386-3 needs kdb-v2.3-2.4.19-common-2, and vice
versa.

If you get undefined variables kdb_port or kdb_serial then you have
mixed the wrong patches.

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