Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964782AbWEaWwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964821AbWEaWwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:52:32 -0400 Received: from mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms ([66.232.26.194]:26735 "EHLO mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964782AbWEaWwb (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:52:31 -0400 Subject: Re: linux-2.6 x86_64 kgdb issue From: Piet Delaney Reply-To: piet@bluelane.com To: Andi Kleen Cc: Piet Delaney , Tom Rini , "Amit S. Kale" , "Vladimir A. Barinov" , Andrew Morton , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200605312301.56452.ak@suse.de> References: <446E0B4B.9070003@ru.mvista.com> <200605310913.54758.ak@suse.de> <20060531150343.GZ31210@smtp.west.cox.net> <200605312301.56452.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-/UlZGbhnV/5HwUkiQYWX" Organization: BlueLane Tech, Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:52:25 -0700 Message-Id: <1149115945.26542.208.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4-3mdk X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 May 2006 22:52:30.0657 (UTC) FILETIME=[E5B0CB10:01C68504] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5069 Lines: 136 --=-/UlZGbhnV/5HwUkiQYWX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 23:01 +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? It's maintained at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgdb Patches can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5073 I suspect that you will likely want to add yourself to the kgdb-bugreport mailing list. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport Mailing list is acting up; I've been having trouble posting due to a mailserver problem; I contacted the SourceForge folks about it. Andrew Morton has recently been taking snapshots and including them in his mm series. It would be nice to get in "in order" and ready for being merged up into the linux tree. When I applied the 2.6.13 patch I think I noticed some '#ifdef KGDB' code missing. I'd like to see the patch totally disabled by not configuring KGDB. The patch instructions are also a bit misleading, at least for 2.6.13; I had to apply all of the patches in the series to avoid a lot a patch rejects. -piet > > -Andi -- --- piet@bluelane.com --=-/UlZGbhnV/5HwUkiQYWX Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Attached message - Re: mm patches - what's the heirarchy for patches on www.kernel.org web page? Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms ([10.0.25.86]) by ms07.mse2.exchange.ms with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:06:58 -0400 Received: from p00m169.mxlogic.net ([66.179.109.169]) by mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:06:58 -0400 Received: from unknown [65.172.181.4] (EHLO smtp.osdl.org) by p00m169.mxlogic.net (mxl_mta-2.14.0-12) with ESMTP id f1147444.2052742064.4223.p00m169.mxlogic.net (envelope-from ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:06:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3K86rtH032515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:06:53 -0700 Received: from bix (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id k3K86rQj019624 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:06:53 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:06:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: piet@bluelane.com Subject: Re: mm patches - what's the heirarchy for patches on www.kernel.org web page? Message-Id: <20060420010605.5b0bc661.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1145520207.25127.33.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> References: <20060419163247.6986a87c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060419224202.3e2f99f5.akpm@osdl.org> <20060420004915.45cd34be.akpm@osdl.org> <1145520207.25127.33.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.72__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.133 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 X-Spam: [F=0.0149253731; B=0.500(0); BMI=0.500(none); S=0.010(2006033101); MH=0.500(2006041910); R=0.600(s0/n0); SC=none; spf=0.500] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [(unknown)] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Return-Path: akpm@osdl.org X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Apr 2006 08:06:58.0190 (UTC) FILETIME=[6555FAE0:01C66451] X-Evolution-Source: imap://pdelaney;auth=NTLM@ms07.mse2.exchange.ms/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piet Delaney wrote: > > tried patching the latest stable kennel, 2.6.16.9 I thought, to > 2.6.17.rc2 but got conflicts. 2.6.16.x is a branch, based on 2.6.16. 2.6.17-rcX is on the trunk. The published diffs are against 2.6.16. So you should have patched 2.6.16. > A few years ago Linus said he wanted to integrated the kgdb patch > but then stopped when he found our there were two patches. Now there > only seems to be one. Do you know why it's not being integrated into > the std linux kernel? Nobody is doing the work to get the patches in order and merged up. It'd require a month or two moderately intense effort. --=-/UlZGbhnV/5HwUkiQYWX-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/