[PATCH] kdb v1.0 for 2.3.29

Andi Kleen ak at suse.de
Tue Feb 1 09:51:04 PST 2000


On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:03:23AM -0800, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> This release restructures the code a bit and adds breakpoint
> instruction style (int 03) breakpoints.   They don't completely
> work yet at this time, so as a workaround, the 'bph' command
> which uses the hardware debug registers should be used to
> establish breakpoints.
> 
> There is some debug code present to save and display the contents of the
> last branch register MSR on page-fault entry to the kernel.
> 
> A list of changes and features can be found on

[...]

One change that I'm missing is a move of the module add code to above
the module init constructor call. That makes it possible to debug
crashing init_module() functions symbolically. 


-Andi



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