From: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Ales Novak <alnovak@suse.cz>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add SLAB allocator understanding.
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B064B5.7000805@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22TmSdnwd9MCo=jf-dLoqQE-O2VROxzRd7p+xee=-_CG0w@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/02/16 22:29, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Kieran Bingham <kieranbingham@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is interesting work!
>>
>> I had been discussing how we might achieve managing this with Jan @
>> FOSDEM yesterday.
>>
>> I believe a python implementation of this could be possible, and then
>> this code can live in the Kernel, and be split across architecture
>> specific layers where necessary to implement handling userspace
>> application boundaries from the Kernel Awareness.
>
> Keeping application specific code with the application instead of gdb
> is definitely a worthy goal.
> [one can quibble over whether linux is an application of course,
> but that's just terminology]
It's just a big fancy application which supports modules, and can talk
to hardware. :D </me ducks to avoid the flying bricks>
>
>> I believe that if properly abstracted (which I think it looks like this
>> already will be), with kdump as a target layer, we can implement the
>> Kernel awareness layers above, so that they can be common to all of our
>> use case scenarios.
>>
>> I have recently proposed creating a gdb.Target object, so that we can
>> layer the kernel specific code on top as a higher stratum layer. This
>> code can then live in the Kernel, and be version specific there, and
>> would then cooperate with the layers below, be that a live target over
>> JTAG, or a virtualised qemu/kvm, or a core dump file:
>
> Providing gdb.Target is also a worthy goal.
Perfect, I'm glad to hear this
> I hope someone will take this on.
That's my current Work In Progress.!
--
Kieran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-31 21:45 Enable gdb to open Linux kernel dumps Ales Novak
2016-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] Create new target "kdump" which uses libkdumpfile: https://github.com/ptesarik/libkdumpfile to access contents of compressed kernel dump Ales Novak
2016-02-04 12:40 ` Pedro Alves
2016-02-04 12:45 ` Ales Novak
2016-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add SLAB allocator understanding Ales Novak
2016-02-01 13:21 ` Kieran Bingham
2016-02-01 22:30 ` Doug Evans
2016-02-02 2:05 ` Ales Novak
2016-02-02 7:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2016-02-02 13:22 ` Petr Tesarik
2016-02-02 14:42 ` Jeff Mahoney
2016-02-02 8:11 ` Kieran Bingham [this message]
2016-02-02 10:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add Jeff Mahoney's py-crash patches Ales Novak
2016-02-01 12:35 ` Kieran Bingham
2016-02-01 22:23 ` Doug Evans
2016-02-02 2:56 ` Jeff Mahoney
2016-02-02 8:25 ` Kieran Bingham
2016-02-03 17:55 ` Jeff Mahoney
2016-02-03 18:31 ` Doug Evans
2016-02-03 19:29 ` Jeff Mahoney
2016-02-04 17:25 ` Petr Tesarik
2016-02-04 18:32 ` Matt Rice
2016-02-04 22:27 ` Doug Evans
2016-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] Minor cleanups Ales Novak
2016-02-01 11:27 ` Enable gdb to open Linux kernel dumps Kieran Bingham
2016-02-01 11:51 ` Kieran Bingham
2016-02-01 14:32 ` Ales Novak
2016-02-01 15:01 ` Jeff Mahoney
2016-02-02 9:12 ` Kieran Bingham
2016-02-10 3:24 ` Jeff Mahoney
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