The kgdb module notification patch (kgdbmod) expects the kernel to be called
"vmlinux". This is often not the case (e.g. vmlinux-2.6.21.1). When invoked on a
kernel that does not match vmlinux, gdb does not complain, and debugs the kernel
almost as normal, except that it does not notice any kernel modules.
When gdb is run under xemacs, if the target filename is a symlink, xemacs will
helpfully dereference the link, so that M-x gdb vmlinux ends up with gdb seeing
vmlinux-2.6.21.1 and consequently failing to notice kernel modules.
The patch fixes this by only requiring a partial match against the given string
(e.g. "vmlinux"), so that vmlinux-2.6.16 etc. will match okay.
Tim
Index: gdb-6.4-kgdbmod/gdb/defs.h
===================================================================
--- gdb-6.4-kgdbmod.orig/gdb/defs.h
+++ gdb-6.4-kgdbmod/gdb/defs.h
@@ -1217,4 +1217,6 @@ extern int use_windows;
extern ULONGEST align_up (ULONGEST v, int n);
extern ULONGEST align_down (ULONGEST v, int n);
+#define LINUX_KERNEL_NAME_STEM "vmlinux"
+
#endif /* #ifndef DEFS_H */
Index: gdb-6.4-kgdbmod/gdb/symfile.c
===================================================================
--- gdb-6.4-kgdbmod.orig/gdb/symfile.c
+++ gdb-6.4-kgdbmod/gdb/symfile.c
@@ -869,7 +869,8 @@ new_symfile_objfile (struct objfile *obj
filename = symfile_objfile->name;
while (dir = strchr(filename, '/'))
filename = dir + 1;
- if (!strcmp(filename, "vmlinux"))
+ /* only require the given characters to match, so that longer filenames
will still match */
+ if (!strncmp(filename, LINUX_KERNEL_NAME_STEM,
strlen(LINUX_KERNEL_NAME_STEM)))
{
sym = lookup_symbol ("start_kernel", NULL, VAR_DOMAIN, NULL, NULL);
if (sym)
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