Jim Houston wrote:
>
> I have been seeing the problems Ethan described on
> SMP i386. I was impressed by his writing and clear
> analysis of the problems.
>
OK, fine: you're flattery has convinced me to just finish the fixes and
make them public. They're about 80-85% done, at least on my sparc64
system.
> I'm very interested in seeing this fixed and would
> like to work with you. I have some time to work on
> this, and I'm up to speed on the code. I have done
> similar work on debuggers for a couple of proprietary
> UNIX systems. If there is a fix in the works, I would
> like see what you're doing.
>
Once I put out the patch, you can figure out why it doesn't work on
i386. 8-)
> I also noticed that single stepping saves and
> restores the interrupt enable flag. If you single
> step over an instruction which changes this flag, you
> lose its effect.
>
On sparc64 this isn't a big issue (%pil vs. pstate.IE), so I hadn't
looked into it.
-- Ethan
