Re: [PATCH 1/5] MIPS: kdb: Remove old workaround for backtracing on other CPUs

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:51 AM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 11:16:40AM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > As of commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs
> > that aren't the master") we no longer need any special case for doing
> > stack dumps on CPUs that are not the kdb master.  Let's remove.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > I have no way to test this personally, so hopefully someone who uses
> > kdb/kgdb on MIPS can.
>
> I took this as a hint to add mips support to kgdbtest ;-)
>
> Support is added and working well. Unfortunately lack of familiarity
> with mips means I have not yet figured out which mips defconfig gives
> us working SMP (and what the corresponding qemu invocation should be).

Nice!


> I think that means I still can't (quite) exercise this code fully.
> The most appropriate test is bta on an SMP system, right?

Yeah, or at least "btc".


> > Ideally this patch should be Acked by MIPS folks and then land through
> > the kdb/kgdb tree since the next patch in the series, ("kdb:
> > kdb_current_regs should be private") depends on it.
>
> An Acked-by from a MIPS maintainer would be very welcome. Perhaps
> with a bit of extra work on the above I might be able to provide
> a Tested-by:.
>
> I didn't see anything that particularly bothered me in the patches but
> given we're already at -rc7 I'm inclined to target this patchset for 5.6
> rather than 5.5.

That's fine.  This is all just cleanup stuff so targeting 5.6 is fine.

-Doug