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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:33:19 +0530
From: "Amit S. Kale" <kgdb@vsnl.net>
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Subject: Re: announce: kgdb 1.5 with reworked buggy smp handling
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:01:36 +0530,
> "Amit S. Kale" <kgdb@vsnl.net> wrote:
> >kgdb 1.5 at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >smp handling is completely reworked. Previous kgdb had a bug
> >which caused it to hang when a processor spun with
> >interrupts disabled and another processor enters kgdb. kgdb
> >now uses nmi watchdog for holding other processors while
> >a machine is in kgdb.
> 
> IA64 disabled spin loops ignore NMI :(.

Thanks for the info.

Isn't there any way get into an interrupt disabled spinning
processor on an ia64 smp machine?
-- 
Amit S. Kale
Linux kernel source level debugger    http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/
	[29th March - kgdb-1.5 with reworked smp handling.]
Translation filesystem                http://trfs.sourceforge.net/

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