From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix thread debugging on Sparc/Linux
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060404.165246.93473545.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060404.161216.67971337.davem@davemloft.net>
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:12:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:11:02 -0400
>
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:54:56PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > The checkpoint/restart stuff is also non-functional on Linux/Sparc,
> > > but I think that could be due to some bug in event message handling on
> > > that platform.
> >
> > Is gdb a 32-bit or 64-bit binary? I bet there's problems with a
> > 32-bit binary. At least one is that the event message is
> > stored as a long.
>
> Yep, that's exactly where I think the bug is, in the 32-bit
> compat layer on sparc64.
I just confirmed that after fixing this in the kernel ptrace()
implementation, checkpointing works fine for 32-bit gdb running on
64-bit kernel for Linux/Sparc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-04 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-02 7:12 David S. Miller
2006-04-04 21:54 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-04 22:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-04 22:08 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-04 22:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-04 22:22 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-04 22:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-04 22:54 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-04 23:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-04 23:12 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-04 23:52 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-04-04 23:58 ` Michael Snyder
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