From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31735 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2006 20:17:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 31727 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jun 2006 20:17:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (HELO sadr.equallogic.com) (66.155.203.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:17:35 +0000 Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5KKHWUQ028614 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:17:32 -0400 Received: from M31.equallogic.com (M31.equallogic.com [172.16.1.31]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id k5KKHWce028609; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:17:32 -0400 Received: from pkoning.equallogic.com ([172.16.1.169]) by M31.equallogic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:17:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17560.22490.629655.738203@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:53:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb@sources.redhat.com, drow@false.org Subject: Re: Instrcutions that must not be stepped. References: <1149726000.10016.71.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060608022654.GA31271@nevyn.them.org> <1150415676.3346.30.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <1150496761.3346.43.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> <200606180341.k5I3fSHu006233@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <1150830180.7608.1.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" XEmacs Lucid X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 >>>>> "PAUL" == PAUL GILLIAM writes: >> By the way, if stepping these atomic sequences proves to be a >> performance problem, you might want to consider implementing >> stepping them in the (Linux) kernel. PAUL> This would be cool. It would be nice to be able to tell if the PAUL> kernel has support for this and let it handle atomic sequences PAUL> if it does. Let GDB handle it if the kernel doesn't. Similarly, in remote debugging, there should be a way to have the stub handle it. That means you may need some extensions to the stub protocol to encode some new information... paul