On 12/14/15, Jeff Merkey <[email protected]> wrote: > Please consider the attached patch. > > SUMMARY > > This patch corrects a hard lockup failure of the system kernel if the > operating system receives a breakpoint exception at a code execution > address which was not registered with the operating system. The patch > allows kernel debuggers, application profiling and performance modules, > and external debugging tools to work better together at sharing the > breakpoint registers on the platform in a way that they do not cause > errors and system faults, and enables the full feature set in the > breakpoint API. If a kernel application triggers a breakpoint > or programs one in error, this patch will catch the condition and report > it to the system log without the operating system experiencing a system > fault. There are several consumers of the Linux Breakpoint API and all > of them can and sometimes do cause the condition this patch corrects. >
Peter, Is that the type of summary that meets the standards. I tried to be concise. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
