Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> In any case, if there are any open issues we are very much ready and 
> willing to address them now or after any potential upstream merge of 
> this codebase. This has meanwhile become one of the best-reviewed pieces 
> of kernel code in living memory ;-)
> 

I spotted one... :)

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> +int __weak kgdb_validate_break_address(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +	char tmp_variable[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE];
> +
> +	return probe_kernel_read((char *)addr, tmp_variable, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);

...dst and src are twisted. Fix below (should make sw-breakpoints work
again).

Jan


diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c
index dce89d1..10fe113 100644
--- a/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ int __weak kgdb_validate_break_address(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	char tmp_variable[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE];
 
-	return probe_kernel_read((char *)addr, tmp_variable, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
+	return probe_kernel_read(tmp_variable, (char *)addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
 }
 
 int __weak kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(unsigned long addr, char *saved_instr)
 {
 	int err;
 
-	err = probe_kernel_read((char *)addr, saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
+	err = probe_kernel_read(saved_instr, (char *)addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 

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