Re: announce: kgdb 1.5 with reworked buggy smp handling

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 05:59:50 EST


On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:01:36 +0530,
"Amit S. Kale" <kgdb@vsnl.net> wrote:
>kgdb 1.5 at http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/
>
>smp handling is completely reworked. Previous kgdb had a bug
>which caused it to hang when a processor spun with
>interrupts disabled and another processor enters kgdb. kgdb
>now uses nmi watchdog for holding other processors while
>a machine is in kgdb.

IA64 disabled spin loops ignore NMI :(.

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