[PATCH] Fix kgdb on little endian ppc64le

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 10:31:54 AEDT 2016


On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 21:39:00 +1100
Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 01/02/16 17:03, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
> >
> > I spent some time trying to use kgdb and debugged my inability to
> > resume from kgdb_handle_breakpoint(). NIP is not incremented
> > and that leads to a loop in the debugger.
> >
> > I've tested this lightly on a virtual instance with KDB enabled.
> > After the patch, I am able to get the "go" command to work as
> > expected
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>  
> 
> Should this be Cc'd to stable?
> 
> 

Good suggestion, Michael? I can repost this to stable if required?

Balbir Singh.


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