linux-kernel - Re: kgdb test suite failure

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805222304250.3295@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 23:14:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
cc:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: kgdb test suite failure

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Jason Wessel wrote:
> An RFC type patch follows which addresses the problem, but in my
> opinion not in a terribly clean way...  Perhaps other folks will
> comment on a different or better way to approach the problem or chime
> in on if it should be fixed at all.  Certainly the test suite could be
> changed to use HW breakpoints for the case where the text segments are
> going to be read only as an example.

Please use HW breakpoints in the test suite. The RFC patch looks
horrible :)

Thanks,
	tglx
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