Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

[jmerkey]

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>>> The competing implementation is kdb not kgdb. kgdb is just a stub for
>>>> remote
>>>> debugging using gdb. kdb is an in-kernel debugger like the one
>>>> proposed here.
>>> Is there work underway to get kdb merged?  (I'm just asking because I
>>> don't know; I personally don't need kdb nor mdb.)
>>
>> KDB still exists in patches but the merge effort was given up when Linus
>> stated that he did not want a kernel debugger. No problem to start merge
>> attempts again AFAICT. Jay?
>
> To merge KDB or any other RAS tools, you need to deal with kdump. Kdump
> hijack panic() before the die calling chain. For KDB or a RAS tool to
> work, an infrastructure such as the "add new notifier function" by
> Takenori Nagano should be in place.
>
> His last attempt fell short, in my opinion, was partly due to his
> "[PATCH 3/3] Move crash_kexec() into  panic_notifier" did not do what it
> meant to do: to fit kexec/kdump into the new infrastructure. That is
> not fatal; it can be fixed to make it right. If community is interested
> in getting a kernel debugger to the kernel, we can continue Takenori's
> work. Once the infrastructure is accepted, then merging KDB or any other
> kernel debugger will make sense.
>
> Regards,
>  - jay
>
>
>>

As I look through entry_32.S and traps_32.c I do not see where kdump is
hooking the notify_die handler which would intercept calls to a debugger.

Where does kdump hook this path?

Jeff


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