Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Jay Lan wrote:
>> KDB defines KDB_VECTOR for x86 machines
>> #define KDB_VECTOR 0xfb for x86_64 systems,
>> and #define KDB_VECTOR 0xf9 for x86_32 systems.
>>
>> In 2.6.27-rc, unfortunately, 0xf9-0xff are all being used. Is it
>> safe for KDB to use 0xf8? The f0-f7 are used for TLB flush.
>
> I've limited knowledge here, but yes, that works fine.
Thanks for your feedback, Hugh!
Mike Travis also wrote me:
: Alan Meyer has a new patch going in to assign vectors dynamically.
: That might be the way to go (at least for x86_64).
That sounds great. I will use 0xf8 for x86_64 for now.
Regards,
- jay
>
> Hugh
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