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Author SHA1 Message Date
Douglas Anderson
f71fc3bc7b Documentation: kgdboc: Document new kgdboc_earlycon parameter
The recent patch ("kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb
using boot consoles") adds a new kernel command line parameter.
Document it.

Note that the patch adding the feature does some comparing/contrasting
of "kgdboc_earlycon" vs. the existing "ekgdboc".  See that patch for
more details, but briefly "ekgdboc" can be used _instead_ of "kgdboc"
and just makes "kgdboc" do its normal initialization early (only works
if your tty driver is already ready).  The new "kgdboc_earlycon" works
in combination with "kgdboc" and is backed by boot consoles.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.9.I7d5eb42c6180c831d47aef1af44d0b8be3fac559@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
2020-06-02 15:15:45 +01:00
Zhouyi Zhou
14994a9bb4 docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
commit 6807c84652 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 14:40:40 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
821c6df877 kgdb.rst: Adjust ReST markups
The automatic conversion didn't work too well for this file.
It added weird html blocks inside it, and did some weird
things for literals. Manually fix it, in order to present
a nice display at html/pdf outputs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:04 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
7fb2e8a490 docs-rst: convert kgdb DocBook to ReST
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:04 -03:00