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Re: gdbstub initial code, v8
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
> [...]
>> Therefore until you track some ugdb-specific software(*)
>> breakpoints ugdb does not need to support Z0 IMO. I guess ugdb
>> will never have to support these: thread-related(?) and tracepoint
>> ones.
> Good! I thought ugdb should somehow handle this all "transparently"
> for gdb. I thought (I don't know why) that writing "int 3" from gdb
> side should be avoided in favour of some "better" method unknown to me.
Please note that last year's gdbstub prototype used kernel uprobes as
an optional gdb breakpoint implementation (i.e., a backend for the Z
packets). When/if the lkml uprobes patches actually get merged, ugdb
should also use them.
- FChE