Re: [3/6] kgdb: core

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 10 2008 - 04:09:05 EST



* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:21:32AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Kerneldoc comments don't belong above the prototype of a function but
> > > the function body.
> >
> > disagree - the best is to have it in both places - and in many
> > places we do that. Anyway, this is up to maintainer discretion.
>
> Huh? In both places is the worst idea ever. It just means things
> will 100% sure get out of sync. And the reason why it should be at
> the function declaration is because that's where the kerneldoc tool
> picks it up.

Anyway, to resolve this i've turning them into non-docbook, descriptive
comments. Please submit any docbook patch to arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c to
x86.git if you'd like more documentation. KGDB is already quite well
documented.

Trivially updated kgdb tree can be pulled from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git

tip a92381ae1a93b6e3bdba60a63972d2ebd6eb73f5. Shortlog and diffstat
below.

( but i believe you are missing the big picture: duplicating the same
information in all places, for functions that do _the same thing_ is
pointless. It's much better to have a single, consistent set of
information at the prototypes site. If docbook does not pick that up
that's a docbook problem. Anyway, it's moot now with the latest tree. )

test-built and test-booted on x86.

Ingo

------------------>
Ingo Molnar (3):
pids: add pid_max prototype
uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
x86: kgdb support

Jan Kiszka (1):
consoles: polling support, kgdboc

Jason Wessel (2):
kgdb: core
kgdb: document parameters

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 +
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 550 ++++++++++
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 47 +
drivers/serial/8250.c | 62 ++
drivers/serial/Kconfig | 3 +
drivers/serial/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/serial/kgdboc.c | 164 +++
drivers/serial/serial_core.c | 67 ++-
include/asm-generic/kgdb.h | 91 ++
include/asm-x86/kgdb.h | 85 ++
include/linux/kgdb.h | 333 ++++++
include/linux/pid.h | 2 +
include/linux/serial_core.h | 4 +
include/linux/tty_driver.h | 12 +
include/linux/uaccess.h | 22 +
kernel/Makefile | 1 +
kernel/kgdb.c | 2019 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +
lib/Kconfig.kgdb | 37 +
22 files changed, 3512 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
create mode 100644 drivers/serial/kgdboc.c
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/kgdb.h
create mode 100644 include/asm-x86/kgdb.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/kgdb.h
create mode 100644 kernel/kgdb.c
create mode 100644 lib/Kconfig.kgdb

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