Re: [PATCH] x86: Drop KGDB support

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 08:38:59 EST


On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> KGDB does some horrible things, and with everybody having access to
> virtualization these days, there is really no reason to use it over
> Qemu's gdb-server.

kgdb_panic() also adds a different code flow on the crash/kexec path,
which makes things more complex. See a recent discussion about this:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/auiO_x_Am8ZmZcmw@xxxxxxxxx/

> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>