asmadeus/linux.git - The linux kernel

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2010-08-05	vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable	Jason Wessel
	The kernel console interface stores the number of lines it is configured to use. The kdb debugger can greatly benefit by knowing how many lines there are on the console for the pager functionality without having the end user compile in the setting or have to repeatedly change it at run time. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-20	printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell	Jason Wessel
	Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the kdb pager and processing can be used, as well as to properly channel I/O to the polled I/O devices. CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-20	kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll	Jason Wessel
	The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if there is no character available. This is required in order to get the page scrolling mechanism working. Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel debugger to process multiple input channels. NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever there is no character available. CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20	kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)	Jason Wessel
	This patch contains only the kdb core. Because the change set was large, it was split. The next patch in the series includes the instrumentation into the core kernel which are mainly helper functions for kdb. This work is directly derived from kdb v4.4 found at: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/ The kdb internals have been re-organized to make them mostly platform independent and to connect everything to the debug core which is used by gdbstub (which has long been known as kgdb). The original version of kdb was 58,000 lines worth of changes to support x86. From that implementation only the kdb shell, and basic commands for memory access, runcontrol, lsmod, and dmesg where carried forward. This is a generic implementation which aims to cover all the current architectures using the kgdb core: ppc, arm, x86, mips, sparc, sh and blackfin. More archictectures can be added by implementing the architecture specific kgdb functions. [mort@sgi.com: Compile fix with hugepages enabled] [mort@sgi.com: Clean breakpoint code renaming kdba_ -> kdb_] [mort@sgi.com: fix new line after printing registers] [mort@sgi.com: Remove the concept of global vs. local breakpoints] [mort@sgi.com: Rework kdb_si_swapinfo to use more generic name] [mort@sgi.com: fix the information dump macros, remove 'arch' from the names] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include fixup to include linux/slab.h] CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>