On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:08:34 +0200, Francois Wellenreiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My conclusion is that we should make a global review on kdb working in >SMP mode. >We should reconsider spin lock management, protection against IPI, CPU >state table >management to be able to run breakpoints correctly in SMP mode.
You are quite corect. This is a known problem with the current design of kdb, concurrent breakpoints can deadlock. Fixing this requires a complete redesign of the kdb entry logic and will break all architectures. Unfortunately my past and current workload has never left enough time to do this redesign. --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
