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RE: Announce: kdb v4.3 is available for kernels 2.4.20, 2.4.21

To: "Keith Owens" <kaos@xxxxxxx>, <kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Announce: kdb v4.3 is available for kernels 2.4.20, 2.4.21
From: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:05:05 +0800
Sender: kdb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcM2/D8MRprqzv4WT462zba33cHroAK2sNWw
Thread-topic: Announce: kdb v4.3 is available for kernels 2.4.20, 2.4.21
Keith:
        I encountered an issue for ISR routine debug, the situation is:
                1: When kdb is entered from keyboard, probably the IRQ
is enabled when it enter kdb(). Then if I set bp at do_IRQ and leave
kdb, the debug may be re-entered as soon as kdba_restoreint(..) is
completed in kdb(). That will cause kdb to be hanged because of LEAVING
flag not cleared correctly. 
                2: Even when kdb() is entered from former debug event,
if I set bp at do_IRQ and leave, the debug may be re-entered within
local_bh_enable() due to its IRQ enabled within this function, thus same
problem existed like above.

        So what is your suggestion about this problem? If I don't make
mistake, probably we should move this 2 items to the end of function
kdb() and make a new release.

Eddie


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