[PATCH] kdb v1.0 for 2.3.29

[Scott Lurndal]

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> 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. 

Ok.  I'll do that.   However, by moving kdb_init() before mem_init(), 
kdb cannot use the kernel memory allocators (It doesn't anyway, because
it cannot trust them, and you wouldn't be able to debug them).


scott

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> -Andi
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