Messages in this thread | | | From | (Scott Lurndal) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdb v1.0 for 2.3.29 | Date | Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:43:23 -0800 (PST) |
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> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:03:23AM -0800, Scott Lurndal wrote: > > This release restructures the code a bit and adds breakpoint > > instruction style (int 03) breakpoints. They don't completely > > work yet at this time, so as a workaround, the 'bph' command > > which uses the hardware debug registers should be used to > > establish breakpoints. > > > > There is some debug code present to save and display the contents of the > > last branch register MSR on page-fault entry to the kernel. > > > > A list of changes and features can be found on > > [...] > > One change that I'm missing is a move of the module add code to above > the module init constructor call. That makes it possible to debug > crashing init_module() functions symbolically.
Ok. I'll do that. However, by moving kdb_init() before mem_init(), kdb cannot use the kernel memory allocators (It doesn't anyway, because it cannot trust them, and you wouldn't be able to debug them).
scott
> > > -Andi >
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