On 2/1/16, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1 at synopsys.com> wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2016 01:16 AM, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: >> This patch series adds an export which can be set by system debuggers to >> direct the hard lockup and soft lockup detector to trigger a breakpoint >> exception and enter a debugger if one is active. It is assumed that if >> someone sets this variable, then an breakpoint handler of some sort will >> be actively loaded or registered via the notify die handler chain. >> >> This addition is extremely useful for debugging hard and soft lockups >> real time and quickly from a console debugger. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey at gmail.com> > > To reduce duplication, maybe later this could be used to replace > arch_kgdb_breakpoint() > > Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com> > You can drop this patch series, I am rethinking a better way to do this. Jeff
