KDB on SMP machines

Keith Owens kaos at sgi.com
Thu Nov 21 14:48:07 PST 2002


On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:06:11 -0600, 
Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to get KDB working properly on an SMP machine, and it seems 
>to have some problems.  There's KDB_VECTOR, which doesn't seem to be 
>tied to anything but seems to be used to stop the other CPUs, 
>KDBENTRY_VECTOR, which is for initial entry.  In general, the SMP code 
>seems half-done in the patches on the FTP site.

Which kernel and which patches?  I fixed that problem in this
arch/i386/kdb/ChangeLog entry.

2002-11-01 Keith Owens  <kaos at sgi.com>

       * Prevent SMP IRQ overwriting KDB_ENTER().
       * kdb v2.4-2.4.19-i386-2.




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