Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:35:15 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: piet@bluelane.com, "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@linsyssoft.com>,
       "Vladimir A. Barinov" <vbarinov@ru.mvista.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6 x86_64 kgdb issue
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On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 17:03, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:13:53AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Yes because you if modular works you don't need to build it in.
> > >
> > > Modular was working at some point on x86-64 for kdb and the original 2.6
> > > version of kgdb was nearly there too.
> >
> > FWIW, the only change the current version of kgdb makes that would
> > prevent it from being totally modular is the debugger_active check in
> 
> Can you post the patch and a description? 

The change is a simple if (atomic_read(&debugger_active)) return right
at the start.  And I'm embarrased to say the change predates me on the
project so I'm not 100% sure on the lineage and it might be totally
bogus now.

-- 
Tom Rini
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