Re: [PATCH 05/37] kdb: core for kgdb back end

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:36:03PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > I remember going with kaos through all the code
> > outside kdb/ in his own patch and for nearly all hooks
> > outside we found some way to eliminate them. 
> > 
> > I think a lot of this is here too.
> 
> 
> If this has been solved before somewhere, please point me in that direction.  There are whole lot few changes in this series vs original kdb outside of the kdb core area.

I don't think we ever generated patches, just reviewed all the changes
outside kdb/* and eventually agreed that it wasn't needed or could be done in a much
cleaner way.

Frankly some things can be also just dropped. Or if you're really desperate
about nops just nop the spinlock functions while kdb runs.

-Andi
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