Messages in this thread | | | From | Hui Zhu <> | Date | Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:36:11 +0800 | Subject | Re: KGTP (Linux Kernel debugger and tracer) 20110405 release |
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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?
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