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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:36:11 +0800
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Subject: Re: KGTP (Linux Kernel debugger and tracer) 20110405 release
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,
        Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@gmail.com>,
        Steven <mqyoung@gmail.com>, colyli@gmail.com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 16:19, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 13:54 +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
>
>> This is a good question.
>>
>> The KGTP is completely different with KGDB. ?It will not supply simple
>> gdbrsp debug interface to user. ?It just supply ?interface between the
>> kernel tracepoint(Now, just support kprobe, will add others later) and
>> GDB tracepoint function.
>>
>> So user can debug and trace Linux kernel with GDB without stop the
>> Linux Kernel (So the GDB can running on this Kernel). ?It is a trace
>> tools and debug tools.
>
> But this isn't really an answer either. Could you extend the existing
> KGDB infrastructure to provide these features and thereby re-use
> existing infrastructure to reduce your patch size and code duplication?
>
> Jason (the KGDB maintainer) certainly thought there was much possibility
> there when I spoke to him yesterday.
>
> Think of it this way, wouldn't it be much better if there was one tool
> that could provide the combined feature set of KGDB and KGTP?
>

Thanks Peter.  I think it is very good.

Which part do you think kgtp can share with kgdb?

Thanks,
Hui
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