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SubjectRe: KGDB 2.0.3 with fixes and development in ethernet interface
Amit S. Kale wrote:
> On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 6:53 am, George Anzinger wrote:
>
>>Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>
>>>>KGDB 2.0.3 is available at
>>>>http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/kgdb-2/linux-2.6.1-kgdb-2.0.3.tar.bz2
>>>>
>>>>Ethernet interface still doesn't work. It responds to gdb for a couple of
>>>>packets and then panics. gdb log for ethernet interface is pasted below.
>>>>
>>>>It panics and enter kgdb_handle_exception recursively and silently. To
>>>>see the panic on screen make kgdb_handle_exception return immediately if
>>>>kgdb_connected is non-zero.
>>>>
>>>>Panic trace is pasted below. It panics in skb_release_data. Looks like
>>>>skb handling will have to changed to be have kgdb specific buffers.
>>>
>>>This seems to be needed (if I unselect CONFIG_KGDB_THREAD, I get
>>>compile error on x86-64).
>>
>>Amit, could you explain why this is an option? It seems very useful and
>>not really too much code...
>
>
> It saves all registers before switch_to. It does that two times at present.
> Once (implicit) register save by gcc and an explicit register save in
> arch/<proc>/kernel/entry.S Second register save in kern_schedule generates a
> pt_regs structure which gdb can get all registers at once from. If it's
> omited, gdb has to figure out where gcc has saved registers from the
> non-standards code in switch_to, which it can't do correctly all the time.
>
> We can have a check for (a new variable) debugger_enabled before calling
> kern_schedule. That'll be add negligible overhead and will allow extra thread
> info to be saved only when a debugger is enabled. There will not be any need
> for CONFIG_KGDB_THREAD also.

I don't seem to have such a problem with the mm kgdb. No kern_schedule there...

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