On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:06:52PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Kyle McMartin<kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:17:14AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > >> I've been investigating the crashes, but because of problems with gdb > >> and strace I've had to take it slow. Kyle, I have your recent strace > >> patches in my queue to test. Thanks for that. > >> > > > > Which ones? It would be good if some heavy debugger users could test the > > changes in the tracehook branch with coredumps... I'll try to do a build > > of strace using PTRACE_{GET,SET}REGS instead of PEEK & POKE for extra > > testing there as well, but it seems to be working well enough for me. > > If I understand correctly you added PTRACE_GETREGS and PTRACE_SETREGS > with this patch: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/1882 > > Then you posted a patch to strace to use PTRACE_GETREGS and > PTRACE_SETREGS with this patch: > http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/10/752179/-What-staring-at-an-ass-really-looks-like > > Is my understanding correct? I would need a kernel patch, an strace > patch, and then strace would be using PTRACE_GETREGS and > PTRACE_SETREGS? > > How is the debugger involved in this? > I haven't figured out how to make gdb use getregs/setregs yet. But if coredumps continue to work, then the backend regset code is working. Yeah, those patches should enable it for you. I forgot I posted the strace ones. regards, Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html