Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-30 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Jason Wessel wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >>> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> +while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active)); >>> eek. We're in the proce

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-30 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Jason Wessel wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >>> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> +while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active)); >>> eek. We're in the proce

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-30 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Wessel wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> +while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active)); >>> >> >> eek. We're in the process of hunting down and eliminati

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:19:29 -0700 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > > Jason Wessel wrote: > >> Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 > >>> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> >

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Jason Wessel
Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > We are getting a problem with VMware where kernel text is the schedler > is getting wacked with four null bytes into the code. Thought I'd use > the current linux-2.6-kgdb.git tree and possible the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA > patch to make kernel text readonly: > > https://www

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Jason Wessel
Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Why am I getting this when I do: > > git clone > http://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git > I have only ever used: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git Jason. ___

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Wessel
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 > Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> +while (!atomic_read(&debugger_active)); >> > > eek. We're in the process of hunting down and eliminating exactly this > construct. There have been cases where the compiler cache

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Wessel
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:04:28 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Got that on imac g3. CC kernel/kgdb.o kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'kgdb_handle_exception': kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&' kernel/kgdb.c:940: warn

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps there is a cleaner way to do the same thing and avoid the > cmpxchg all together. I used the attached patch to eliminate the > cmpxchg operation. > > > Jason. > > > [kgdb_enter_atomic.patch text/plain (2.0