Re: [RFC] [PATCH] In-kernel gdbstub based on utrace Infrastructure.

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu writes: [...] Since the speed of development in this area is truly glacial at the moment and the practical advantages that i can experience personally (directly as a Linux user and indirectly as a maintainer) are miniscule so far, caution is warranted IMO. [...]

Re: Tests Failures on PPC64

2009-12-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 12/10, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 12/09, CAI Qian wrote: - Oleg Nesterov o...@redhat.com wrote: Thanks, but it doesn't fail for me on this machine... Hmm, it failed for me. # cd /root/ptrace-tests # make check ... FAIL: watchpoint OMG. Yet another test-case fails

Re: Tests Failures on PPC64

2009-12-10 Thread CAI Qian
I bet it fails without utrace too? (please don't tell it doesn't ;) Yes. Did you see it fails on other ppc64 machines? No. Ah. I didn't notice you did biarch-check, not check. Will take a look later... Thanks in advance, CAI Qian

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] In-kernel gdbstub based on utrace Infrastructure.

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:16:38PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] The gdbstub prototype was constructed for two reasons: to demonstrate utrace usage now, and in the future to be incrementally useful (over ptrace, by moving into fast kernel-space operations like multithreading

Re: Tests Failures on PPC64

2009-12-10 Thread K.Prasad
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 12/09, CAI Qian wrote: - Oleg Nesterov o...@redhat.com wrote: Thanks, but it doesn't fail for me on this machine... Hmm, it failed for me. # cd /root/ptrace-tests # make check ... FAIL: watchpoint