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

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:59:01 -0800 Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?
> 

I grabbed them.

Are there any updates on the testing status, particularly on MIPS?