Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/3] xen&domain gdb debugger

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:20:42PM +0900, Kouya Shimura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series of patches add support to debug a xen hypervisor
> and domains with gdb.
> 
> There remain so many issues but I think it's helpfull for
> developers. Please try it.
> 
> See tools/debugger/ia64-gdb/README for more details.

Great. This must be usefull!

Your approach to peek/poke xen pages is to map them into dom0
which is ia64 specific.
How about adding a new hypercall peek/poke pages?
Although such a hypercall won't be suitable to read/write many data,
they would be arch generic so that it would be applicable to x86 too.
Looking into the patch to gdb, it maps, read/write page and unmaps
each time to access xen memory. So just calling peek/poke hypercall
overhead seems acceptable. (At least at this moment.)
-- 
yamahata

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