KGDB/KDB New:

* KDB: improved searching
    * No longer enter debug core on panic if panic timeout is set
 
 KGDB/KDB regressions / cleanups
    * fix pdf doc build errors
    * prevent junk characters on kdb console from printk levels
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Merge tag 'for_linux-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb

Pull kgdb/kdb updates from Jason Wessel:
 "KGDB/KDB New:
   - KDB: improved searching
   - No longer enter debug core on panic if panic timeout is set

  KGDB/KDB regressions / cleanups
   - fix pdf doc build errors
   - prevent junk characters on kdb console from printk levels"

* tag 'for_linux-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
  kgdb, docs: Fix <para> pdfdocs build errors
  debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.
  kdb: Const qualifier for kdb_getstr's prompt argument
  kdb: Provide forward search at more prompt
  kdb: Fix a prompt management bug when using | grep
  kdb: Remove stack dump when entering kgdb due to NMI
  kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles
  kdb: Fix off by one error in kdb_cpu()
  kdb: fix incorrect counts in KDB summary command output
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Linus Torvalds 2015-02-20 15:13:29 -08:00
commit 4fbd0a81a0
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may be configured as a kernel built-in or a kernel loadable module.
You can only make use of <constant>kgdbwait</constant> and early
debugging if you build kgdboc into the kernel as a built-in.
</para>
<para>Optionally you can elect to activate kms (Kernel Mode
Setting) integration. When you use kms with kgdboc and you have a
video driver that has atomic mode setting hooks, it is possible to
@ -206,7 +207,6 @@
crashes or doing analysis of memory with kdb while allowing the
full graphics console applications to run.
</para>
</para>
<sect2 id="kgdbocArgs">
<title>kgdboc arguments</title>
<para>Usage: <constant>kgdboc=[kms][[,]kbd][[,]serial_device][,baud]</constant></para>
@ -284,7 +284,6 @@
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</sect3>
<para>NOTE: Kgdboc does not support interrupting the target via the
gdb remote protocol. You must manually send a sysrq-g unless you
have a proxy that splits console output to a terminal program.
@ -305,6 +304,7 @@
as well as on the initial connect, or to use a debugger proxy that
allows an unmodified gdb to do the debugging.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kgdbwait">
@ -350,12 +350,12 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
<para>IMPORTANT NOTE: You cannot use kgdboc + kgdbcon on a tty that is an
active system console. An example of incorrect usage is <constant>console=ttyS0,115200 kgdboc=ttyS0 kgdbcon</constant>
</para>
<para>It is possible to use this option with kgdboc on a tty that is not a system console.
</para>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kgdbreboot">
<title>Run time parameter: kgdbreboot</title>