Re: kernel gdb for intel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:54:53 +0100 (BST)


> I can't get this. How can two gdb stubs work correctly
> on two serial ports? In absence of any globals, there won't be
> any data corruption, though there are inherent assumptions in
> the kernel about progress on all cpus. If GKL, page cache lock etc
> are held by one cpu, the other cpu will not be able to make
> any/much progress.

That is fine. It'll get stuck in a lock. One thing it was useful for was
exactly that - getting a given point and checking the locking cases worked

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