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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] kdb: Don't implicitly change tasks; plus misc fixups
    On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 05:42:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:59:01 -0800 Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
    >
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:17 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > This started out as just a follow-up to Daniel's post [1]. I wanted
    > > > to stop implicitly changing the current task in kdb. ...but, of
    > > > course, everywhere you look in kdb there are things to cleanup, so
    > > > this gets a few misc cleanups I found along the way. Enjoy.
    > > >
    > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010150735.dhrj3pbjgmjrdpwr@holly.lan
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Douglas Anderson (5):
    > > > MIPS: kdb: Remove old workaround for backtracing on other CPUs
    > > > kdb: kdb_current_regs should be private
    > > > kdb: kdb_current_task shouldn't be exported
    > > > kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs
    > > > kdb: Get rid of confusing diag msg from "rd" if current task has no
    > > > regs
    > > >
    > > > arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 5 -----
    > > > include/linux/kdb.h | 2 --
    > > > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c | 8 +-------
    > > > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 31 ++++++++++++++-----------------
    > > > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 +-
    > > > 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
    > >
    > > I noticed that this series doesn't seem to be in linux-next, but I
    > > think it was supposed to target v5.6? Do you know if there is
    > > anything outstanding or if it'll be queued up sometime soon?
    > >
    >
    > I grabbed them.
    >
    > Are there any updates on the testing status, particularly on MIPS?

    I put in a fair bit of work earlier this dev cycle to add MIPS to the
    kgdb test suite. Unfortunately that left me catching up on a few other
    things... or putting it another way I am late putting together the kgdb
    tree for v5.6. It will be done by the weekend.

    The first patch never got a formal Acked-by from the MIPS folks but they
    commented positively so we can probably go ahead.


    Daniel.

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