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> Hello All,
>
> I seem to vaguely remember some conversations about this in the past, but I
> can't find anything. I have a question concerning the use of ddd (GDB) on
> SMP systems.
>
> If I set a breakpoint in my code, hit the breakpoint, look at a few locals
> and then continue, 3 out of 4 times my target system "dies" in a bottom half
> synchronization handler. It's almost as if when I hit my break, GDB is only
> stoping the processor running my code and the other proc continues to run.
>
> If I rebuild my kernel without SMP support, all is fine and I can break and
> examine all I want. Also, if I use printk's in the SMP kernel, all is fine
> and I do not encounter the failure.
>
> Are there any "tricks" to using GDB with SMP kernels?
I don't recall gdb being mention wrt SMP; I do recall gdb and THREADS. The
answer in that case was "get the latest version."
This same advice is a good starting-point for you too.
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