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> Hi Keith and the rest of the gang,
>
> I would like to know some rather basic questions answered. I could not make
> out much from the available documnetations.
>
> The following are my questions:
>
> 1) How is debugging done in a multi-processor environment ?
When an event of interest occurs, kdb will stop all processors. The
processor upon which the event occured will be the active processor
that KDB initially uses; you can switch processors using a kdb command.
> 2) Does kdb/kdgb support debugging in a SMP environment ?
kdb does. I'm not sure if SMP support was added to kgdb.
> 3) Could anyone let me know the limitations kdb/kgdb has in an SMP
> environment?
> 4) Can non-maskable interrupts be sent across processors while debugging?
KDB uses NMI's to switch cpu's. Other than that, NMI's are handled
normally. Note that while kdb is running on a CPU, the other CPU's are
all halted (well, blocked anyway).
>
> anyone has anyidea of Dprobes limitations and strenghts in the same context,
> please throw light on the same.
Sorry, don't know anything about Dprobes.
scott
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