Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:19:29 -0700 | From | Pete/Piet Delaney <> | Subject | Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc |
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Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Jason Wessel wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >>> Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> + while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active)); >>>> >>> eek. We're in the process of hunting down and eliminating exactly this >>> construct. There have been cases where the compiler cached the >>> atomic_read() result in a register, turning the above into an infinite >>> loop. >>> >>> Plus we should never add power-burners like that into the kernel >>> anyway. That loop should have a cpu_relax() in it. Which will also >>> fix the >>> compiler problem described above. >>> >>> >> Agreed, and fixed with a cpu_relax. > >>> Thirdly, please always add a newline when coding statements like that: >>> >>> while (expr()) >>> ; >>> >> The other instances I found of the same problem in the kgdb core are >> fixed too. > >> I merged all the changes into the for_mm branch in the kgdb git tree. > > Where is the kgdb git tree?
Why am I getting this when I do:
git clone http://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- error: Couldn't get http://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git/refs/tags/v2.6.11 for tags/v2.6.11 The requested URL returned error: 404 error: Could not interpret tags/v2.6.11 as something to pull rm: cannot remove directory `/nethome/piet/Src/linux/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/clone-tmp': Directory not empty /nethome/piet/Src/linux/git/jwessel$ - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
We are getting a problem with VMware where kernel text is the schedler is getting wacked with four null bytes into the code. Thought I'd use the current linux-2.6-kgdb.git tree and possible the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA patch to make kernel text readonly:
https://www.x86-64.org/pipermail/patches/2007-March/003666.html
I thought the kernel text was RO and gdb had to disable it to insert a breakpoint.
- -piet
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