Re: Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (NLKD)

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx> 24.06.05 04:15:19 >>>
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:54:09 -0600, 
>"Clyde Griffin" <CGRIFFIN@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>Novell engineering is introducing the Novell Linux Kernel Debugger
>>(NLKD) as an open source project intended to provide an enhanced and
>>robust debugging experience for Linux kernel developers.

>Hmm, no backtrace,

That's certainly wrong: for x86 it uses .eh_frame info, for ia64 it would use the native one.

>turns off kprobes,

A temporary measure; enabling this again is on the todo list.

>does not handle ia64 MCA/INIT.

It doesn't handle ia64 at all at present; the code in there is yet-to-be-ported code. Only x86{,-64} has been dealt with so far.

>And don't get me started about the trailing white space in the patch.

While I wasn't aware of any (and honestly, I hate discovering such, too), that is certainly the easiest thing to take care of.

>I'll stick with KDB for now.

Your choice, obviously.

Jan


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