Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754235Ab1DER1s (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:27:48 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:51510 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753088Ab1DER1q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:27:46 -0400 Subject: Re: KGTP (Linux Kernel debugger and tracer) 20110405 release From: Peter Zijlstra To: Hui Zhu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Khouzam , Thiago Jung Bauermann , Steven , colyli@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Jason Wessel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:27:38 +0200 Message-ID: <1302024458.2225.1350.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:59 +0800, Hui Zhu wrote: > KGTP is a realtime and lightweight Linux Kernel GDB debugger and > tracer that use Kprobe. > > It make Linux Kernel supply a GDB remote debug interface. Then GDB in > current machine or remote machine(see "Make GDB connect to gtp") can > debug Linux through GDB tracepoint without stop the Linux Kernel. > And even if the board doesn't have GDB on it and doesn't have > interface for remote debug. It can debug the Linux Kernel use offline > debug (See "Offline debug"). So this leaves me wondering how this is different from the existing KGDB, if its different why its not reusing/extending the existing infrastructure. -- 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/