On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:34:51PM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:20:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > [...] Bear in mind that one of the things you do with kgdb is to > > modify kernel memory [...] > > Just for completeness, keep in mind that one can already > do these sorts of things on a batch basis using systemtap:
You don't even need systemtap: it has been always possible with gdb -write vmlinux /proc/kcore The only value add of the kgdb stub is really that you can single step too and do post mortem (although the later works fine using kdump/crash these days too) -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
