Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb!

2006-08-30 Thread Amit S. Kale
On Thursday 31 August 2006 02:10, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > Simple question -- and to be quite honest with you -- I don't > > > understand why you wouldn't want to simply use gdb alone > > > in this case? > > > > I don't see any reason

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Hosted Linux Projects - 2.6.1 6-stable; How about "free" 2.6.16-stab le-kgdb repositories?

2006-08-30 Thread Amit S. Kale
On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:51, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:24:13PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:12 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > Perhaps the bitkeeper 2.6.*-kgdb-stable repositories: > > > > http://linux.bkbits.net/ > > > > would be a e

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] kgdb help over ethernet

2006-08-30 Thread Amit S. Kale
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:42, Piet Delaney wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:58 -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 06:47 -0700, Furqan Ahmed Ghulam Shabbir wrote: > > You might find the attached kgdb code helpful. It's from my > 2.6.12 kgdb workspace. I haven't pulled it up t

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Hosted Linux Projects - 2.6.16-stable; How about "free" 2.6.16-stable-kgdb repositories?

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:24:13PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:12 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Perhaps the bitkeeper 2.6.*-kgdb-stable repositories: > > http://linux.bkbits.net/ > > would be a easy way to maintain kgdb support for a series > of releases.

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Hosted Linux Projects - 2.6.16-stable; How about "free" 2.6.16-stable-kgdb repositories?

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:12 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: Perhaps the bitkeeper 2.6.*-kgdb-stable repositories: http://linux.bkbits.net/ would be a easy way to maintain kgdb support for a series of releases. Free Bitkeeper use for bitkeeper 2.6.*-kgdb-stable repositories might help

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700 Piet Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who > > > respond

[Kgdb-bugreport] How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who > > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with what's > > going on in the mai

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb! - KGDB in Linus Kernel.

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with what's > going on in the mainline kernel. Because if problems crop up (and they > will), I don'

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb! - KGDB in Linus Kernel.

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:53 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:41:32 -0700 Piet Delaney wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:40 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Simple question -- and to be quite ho

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb! - KGDB in Linus Kernel.

2006-08-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:41:32 -0700 Piet Delaney wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:40 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > > > > > > Simple question -- and to be quite honest with you -- I don't > > > > understand why you wouldn't want t

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb! - KGDB in Linus Kernel.

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:41:32 -0700 Piet Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My preference is for kgdb, like kexec, to become part of the > mainstream kernel as a configurable component. Me too. And I expect I could talk Linus into it if a) it works well on a transport other-than-rs232 and b) t

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb! - KGDB in Linus Kernel.

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:40 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > > > > Simple question -- and to be quite honest with you -- I don't > > > understand why you wouldn't want to simply use gdb alone > > > in this case? > > > > I don't see an

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb!

2006-08-30 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:35:21PM -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > > > > Simple question -- and to be quite honest with you -- I don't > > understand why you wouldn't want to simply use gdb alone > > in this case? > > I don't see any reason for core file not to be read correctly by > gdb. It's conve

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [RFC] [Crash-utility] Patch to use gdb's bt in crash - works great with kgdb!

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 09:15 -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: Morning Dave: > Rachita Kothiyal wrote: > > > Hi Dave > > > > I was trying to implement better backtrace mechanism for crash using > > dwarf info. And was trying to use the embedded gdb itself as gdb > > already uses dwarf information for u

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] kgdb help over ethernet

2006-08-30 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 06:47 -0700, Furqan Ahmed Ghulam Shabbir wrote: > Hi, > I have tried to work with kgdb using serial but wasn't able > to do that due to errors now I am trying to setup kgdb with > ethernet. I successfully applied the all patches > > and configured with ethernet suppor

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] softlockup on powerpc w/ kgdb on

2006-08-30 Thread Milind Dumbare
Checked this in, files changed, - core.patch - Changelog. On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 16:42 +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: > Vitaly, > > That's a good find. This is certainly the correct way to prevent soft lockup. > > Will checkin. > Thanks. > -Amit > > On Tuesday

[Kgdb-bugreport] kgdb help over ethernet

2006-08-30 Thread Furqan Ahmed Ghulam Shabbir
Hi, I have tried to work with kgdb using serial but wasn't able to do that due to errors now I am trying to setup kgdb with ethernet. I successfully applied the all patches and configured with ethernet support for kgdb with make menuconfig. then i gave make bzImage command and placed both Syst

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] memory faults on ARM w/user-context

2006-08-30 Thread Milind Dumbare
Find the patch attached for memory checks (comparison of requested address against TASK_SIZE) to kgdb_mem2hex, kgdb_ebin2mem, kgdb_hex2mem. This prohibits KGDB from accessing user level memory. On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 18:22 +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:19, Piet Delaney