I'm attempting to use kdb 1.5 on 2.2.18 (via the patch kdb-v1_5-2_2_18.gz).
 
I'd like to use this in conjunction with the NMI watchdog timer, but it appears that some of the
code supporting the NMI watchdog timer may not have been backported from 2.4 as part of
this patch.  For example CONFIG_UP_NMI_WATCHDOG is used in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
but the full support for the UP NMI watchdog (generating watchdog events based on the performance
counters) doesn't appear to be included in the patch.  Also, some of the code in traps.c is
conditionally compiled based on CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC_KAO but this doesn't appear to be
a valid config option.  Also, the /proc NMI watchdog support appears to be missing.
 
Should I assume that the NMI watchdog feature isn't supported with the backport to 2.2, or am I
missing something?  I'm aware that there is a separate NMI watchdog patch for 2.2 kernels, but I
don't believe this includes the UP support and it would need to be integrated with kdb.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Dave

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