Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 07:26:47 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:21:44PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> The hardest problem: how do you do the block read? Possibilities:
>
> - Ignore the problem, use normal block device I/O
> - Use the real mode bios, needs V86 support

And it requires a sync before every possible crash to ensure cache
coherency (assuming you want to access the same ext2 without the debugger
as well) So you basically cannot buffer writes to that source code.

-Andi

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