Fw: [PATCH] kdb dmesg output broken after log_buf changes

[Will Schmidt]

> My question is, how does kdb work? I cant see any hooks in arch/ppc64 to
> handle dodgy page faults etc. Does kdb work without requiring any arch
> hooks?

When the changes were made in traps.c and fault.c to use the debugger()
call, instead of the xmon() call,  kdb was changed to do the same.
The KDB change to set those hooks are at the bottom of
arch/ppc64/kdb/kdbasupport.c  in function kdba_init()...


willschm at us.ibm.com
Linux on PowerPC-64 Development
IBM Rochester
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  |       To:      Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de>                                                                     |
  |       cc:      Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>, linuxppc64-dev at lists.linuxppc.org                          |
  |       From:    Will Schmidt/Rochester/IBM at IBMUS                                                              |
  |       Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdb dmesg output broken after log_buf changes(Document link: Will Schmidt)        |
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willschm at us.ibm.com
Linux on PowerPC-64 Development
IBM Rochester


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