Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:01:55 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] kgdb-light -v10
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:24:08PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > Anyways the slight risk of the other CPUs eventually recovering would 
> > seem a acceptable trade off versus not being able to use the debugger 
> > to debug the system with hanging CPUs.
> 
> see? There's the difference between us. The initial merge of KGDB does 
> not want to include policies for nuances that pose an "acceptable slight 
> risk".

Ok fine. Please implement DMA quiescence on kgdb entry then; otherwise
the code won't conform to your standards at all.

-Andi
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