Re: [PATCH 2/2] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

le on *all* supported architectures? If not, then perhaps this should be "turn off KASLR if necessary by ..." But I don't think that's a big deal really. Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham >Alternatively, QEMU allows to boot the kernel directly using -kernel, >-append

Re: [PATCH 0/6] scripts/gdb: Fixes for 4.7

On 11/07/16 20:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:17:21 +0100 Kieran Bingham > wrote: > >> Will this fixes series be able to make it for 4.7 ? > > Yup, I'll send them in this week. Sorry, I've been a bit laggy the > past two weeks. Back up t

Re: [PATCH 0/6] scripts/gdb: Fixes for 4.7

Hi Andrew, Will this fixes series be able to make it for 4.7 ? -- Regards Kieran On 29/06/16 06:00, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2016-06-28 17:22, Kieran Bingham wrote: >> Hi Andrew, >> >> Please consider this series for integration into the current rc series. >> I had hop

[PATCH 6/6] Revert "scripts/gdb: add documentation example for radix tree"

ocumentation as well. Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt | 21 - 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt b/Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt index 4ab7d43d0754..7050ce8794b9 100644 --- a/Do

[PATCH 0/6] scripts/gdb: Fixes for 4.7

simply revert the feature for this release. Aside from the revert, we have four fairly minor fixups. Kieran Bingham (4): scripts/gdb: silence 'nothing to do' message scripts/gdb: rebuild constants.py on dependancy change Revert "scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser" Reve

[PATCH 3/6] scripts/gdb: add constants.py to .gitignore

From: Omar Sandoval Since scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py is autogenerated, this should have been added to .gitignore when it was introduced. Fixes: f197d75fcad1 ("scripts/gdb: provide linux constants") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- scripts

[PATCH 1/6] scripts/gdb: silence 'nothing to do' message

The constants.py generation, involves a rule to link into the main makefile. This rule has no command and generates a spurious warning message in the build logs when CONFIG_SCRIPTS_GDB is enabled. Fix simply by giving a no-op action Reported-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham

[PATCH 4/6] scripts/gdb: Perform path expansion to lx-symbol's arguments

ot;~" Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py index 9a0f8923f67c..004b0ac7fa72 10064

[PATCH 5/6] Revert "scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser"

t;radix-tree: free up the bottom bit of exceptional entries for reuse") and no longer functions, but also prevents other gdb scripts from loading. This functionality has not yet hit a release, so simply remove it for now Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- Due to unfortunate timing, the radix

[PATCH 2/6] scripts/gdb: rebuild constants.py on dependancy change

iszka Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile b/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile index 7a33556db4e1..8b00031f5349 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/Mak

[PATCHv4 11/12] scripts/gdb: Add documentation example for radix tree

Provide a worked example for utilising the lx_radix_tree_lookup function Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham --- Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt | 21 + 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gdb