[Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

[Pete/Piet Delaney]

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Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:
> Jason Wessel wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500
>>> Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> +    while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active));
>>>>     
>>> eek.  We're in the process of hunting down and eliminating exactly this
>>> construct.  There have been cases where the compiler cached the
>>> atomic_read() result in a register, turning the above into an infinite
>>> loop.
>>>
>>> Plus we should never add power-burners like that into the kernel
>>> anyway. That loop should have a cpu_relax() in it.  Which will also
>>> fix the
>>> compiler problem described above.
>>>
>>>   
>> Agreed, and fixed with a cpu_relax.
> 
>>> Thirdly, please always add a newline when coding statements like that:
>>>
>>>     while (expr())
>>>         ;
>>>   
>> The other instances I found of the same problem in the kgdb core are
>> fixed too.
> 
>> I merged all the changes into the for_mm branch in the kgdb git tree.
> 
> Where is the kgdb git tree?

Why am I getting this when I do:

git clone
http://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git

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error: Couldn't get
http://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git/refs/tags/v2.6.11
for tags/v2.6.11
The requested URL returned error: 404
error: Could not interpret tags/v2.6.11 as something to pull
rm: cannot remove directory
`/nethome/piet/Src/linux/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/clone-tmp':
Directory not empty
/nethome/piet/Src/linux/git/jwessel$
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We are getting a problem with VMware where kernel text is the schedler
is getting wacked with four null bytes into the code. Thought I'd use
the current linux-2.6-kgdb.git tree and possible the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
patch to make kernel text readonly:

 https://www.x86-64.org/pipermail/patches/2007-March/003666.html

I thought the kernel text was RO and gdb had to disable it to
insert a breakpoint.

- -piet

> 
> -piet
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason.
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