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diff --git a/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst b/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst index b29b0aac2717..dd6a103073fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst @@ -380,6 +380,13 @@ virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuses gdb which resolves addresses of kernel symbols from the symbol table of vmlinux. +Kernel parameter: ``rodata`` +---------------------------- + +``CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX`` is turned on by default and is not +visible to menuconfig on some architectures (arm64 for example), +you can pass ``rodata=off`` to the kernel in this case. + Using kdb ========= @@ -889,34 +896,6 @@ in the virtual console layer. On resuming kernel execution, the kernel debugger calls kgdboc_post_exp_handler() which in turn calls con_debug_leave(). -Any video driver that wants to be compatible with the kernel debugger -and the atomic kms callbacks must implement the ``mode_set_base_atomic``, -``fb_debug_enter`` and ``fb_debug_leave operations``. For the -``fb_debug_enter`` and ``fb_debug_leave`` the option exists to use the -generic drm fb helper functions or implement something custom for the -hardware. The following example shows the initialization of the -.mode_set_base_atomic operation in -drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:: - - - static const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs intel_helper_funcs = { - [...] - .mode_set_base_atomic = intel_pipe_set_base_atomic, - [...] - }; - - -Here is an example of how the i915 driver initializes the -fb_debug_enter and fb_debug_leave functions to use the generic drm -helpers in ``drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c``:: - - - static struct fb_ops intelfb_ops = { - [...] - .fb_debug_enter = drm_fb_helper_debug_enter, - .fb_debug_leave = drm_fb_helper_debug_leave, - [...] - }; Credits |