Re: [PATCH 0/5] kdb: Don't implicitly change tasks; plus misc fixups

[Doug Anderson]

Hi

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:17 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This started out as just a follow-up to Daniel's post [1].  I wanted
> to stop implicitly changing the current task in kdb.  ...but, of
> course, everywhere you look in kdb there are things to cleanup, so
> this gets a few misc cleanups I found along the way.  Enjoy.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010150735.dhrj3pbjgmjrdpwr@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Douglas Anderson (5):
>   MIPS: kdb: Remove old workaround for backtracing on other CPUs
>   kdb: kdb_current_regs should be private
>   kdb: kdb_current_task shouldn't be exported
>   kdb: Gid rid of implicit setting of the current task / regs
>   kdb: Get rid of confusing diag msg from "rd" if current task has no
>     regs
>
>  arch/mips/kernel/traps.c       |  5 -----
>  include/linux/kdb.h            |  2 --
>  kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c      |  8 +-------
>  kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c    | 31 ++++++++++++++-----------------
>  kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

I noticed that this series doesn't seem to be in linux-next, but I
think it was supposed to target v5.6?  Do you know if there is
anything outstanding or if it'll be queued up sometime soon?

Thanks!


-Doug