Re: gdb can break on __init function ?

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:03:43 -0700, 
Jun Sun <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I am using gdb/kdb to debug kernel through a serial line.  It mostly
>works.  However I notice that I cannot break on any functions declared
>as "__init".  If I remove that declaration, everything is fine.

__init code and data is collected in one place by the linker.  After
the kernel has finished initialization, the entire __init code and data
is *freed* and reused as kmalloc space.  Setting breakpoints in code
that will be removed and reused for random data is a bad idea.