* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> [2009-11-30 13:09:12]: > On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 17:33 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > This patch implements an in-kernel gdb stub. > > It provides an interface between gdb and Linux Kernel by implementing > > the remote serial protocol. This gdbstub uses utrace infrastructure. > > This patch provides register set access, signal mapping, process event > > handling, input/output operations. > > > > /proc/<pid>/gdb was chosen as file for gdb to interact with the > > process through remote serial protocol. > > > > Hence users would have to use "target remote /proc/<pid>/gdb" command > > on gdb prompt to start using this infrastructure. > > > > For Breakpointing support, gdbstub needs User space breakpointing > > layer and uprobes layer which will be posted later. > > How does this compare to kgdb and related efforts?
This is a In-kernel gdbstub to debug user space programs. This stub doesnt help in debugging kernel. Hence I am not sure how to compare kgdb gdbstub with this gdbstub. Can you please provide more pointers on what you were referring to? -- Thanks and Regards Srikar
