Let me know if I need to do anything else with this patch. I am using git/mutt to send patches from now on and I have my smtp gateway with gmail properly setup and tested so there won't be any more fritzed patches. It looks like this is relatively easy to do if you ge the tools setup correctly. One problem this patch did not address is clearing the breakpoints detected as spurious in dr7. The apps that cause this are likely to just go back and set dr7 active again so clearing it won't stop it from firing of again, and clearing will most likely break most of the apps that call the breakpoint API if this hiccup happens intermittently.
I very much appreciate you guys patience and help it was fun to work on this and submit these patches. Thosmas, I must have misunderstood the comments about magic numbers but it got corrected. With regard to the swapgs problem, I may have a fix in the debugger to get around it by setting the MSR if I detect someone execute one of the swapxx instructions. Will solve the stepping problem (tested it), but doesn;t help with places in the exception handlers where triggering exceptions causes swapgs to nest unexpectedly. I will continue to work on it and see what I can figure out that may not be so radical as changing all the exception handlers. 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/
