Hi, On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 6:25 AM Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> wrote: > > To the very best of my knowledge there has never been any in-tree > code that calls this function. It exists largely to support an > out-of-tree driver that provides kgdb-over-ethernet using the > netpoll API. > > kgdboe has been out-of-tree for more than 10 years and I don't > recall any serious attempt to upstream it at any point in the last > five. At this stage it looks better to stop carrying this code in > the kernel and integrate the code into the out-of-tree driver > instead. > > The long term trajectory for the kernel looks likely to include > effort to remove or reduce the use of tasklets (something that has > also been true for the last 10 years). Thus the main real reason > for this patch is to make explicit that the in-tree kgdb features > do not require tasklets. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> > --- > > Notes: > During this cycle two developers have proposed tidying up the > DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD() in the debug core. Both threads ended with a > suggestion to remove kgdb_schedule_breakpoint() but I don't recall > seeing a follow up patch for either thread... so I wrote it myself. > > include/linux/kgdb.h | 1 - > kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 26 -------------------------- > 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>