Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 03:07:22 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trini@kernel.crashing.org, george@mvista.com,
       pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: Re: kgdb for mainline kernel: core-lite [patch 1/3]
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"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 08 Mar 2004 3:56 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com> wrote:
>  > > Here are features that are present only in full kgdb:
>  > >  1. Thread support  (aka info threads)
>  >
>  > argh, disaster.  I discussed this with Tom a week or so ago when it looked
>  > like this it was being chopped out and I recall being told that the
>  > discussion was referring to something else.
>  >
>  > Ho-hum, sorry.  Can we please put this back in?
> 
>  Err., well this is one of the particularly dirty parts of kgdb. That's why 
>  it's been kept away. It takes care of correct thread backtraces in some rare 
>  cases.

Let me just make sure we're taking about the same thing here.  Are you
saying that with kgdb-lite, `info threads' is completely missing, or does
it just not work correctly with threads (as opposed to heavyweight
processes)?

>  If you consider it an absolutely must, we can do something so that the dirty 
>  part is kept away and info threads almost always works.

Yes, I'd consider `info threads' support a must-have.  I'm rather surprised
that others do not?

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