[v5][PATCH 3/6] book3e/kgdb: update thread's dbcr0

"“tiejun.chen”" tiejun.chen at windriver.com
Wed Oct 23 20:27:22 EST 2013


On 10/19/2013 06:57 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> gdb always need to generate a single step properly to invoke
>> a kgdb state. But with lazy interrupt, book3e can't always
>> trigger a debug exception with a single step since the current
>> is blocked for handling those pending exception, then we miss
>> that expected dbcr configuration at last to generate a debug
>> exception.
>
> What do you mean by "the current is blocked"?  Could you explain more
> clearly what lazy EE has to do with MSR_DE and DBCR0?
>

I will go another path to make sure the lazy EE doesn't affect KGDB, so please 
see next version.

Thanks,

Tiejun



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