Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:43:47 -0800 | From | George Anzinger <> | Subject | Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:27:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote: >> >>> Often it is not clear just why we are in the stub, given that >>>we trap such things as kernel page faults, NMI watchdog, BUG macros and such. >> >>Yes, that can be confusing. A little printk on the console prior to >>entering the debugger would be nice. > > > What I did for kdb and panic some time ago was to flash the keyboard > lights. If you use a unique frequency (different from kdb > and from panic) it works quite nicely.
Assuming a key board and a clear (no spin locks) path to it. Still it only says we are in kgdb, now why.
-- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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