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Re: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi-commands support in batch mode

From "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi-commands support in batch mode
Date 2016-07-21 15:50 +0200
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On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 04:12:08 PM Lv Zheng wrote:
> This patch adds multi-commands support for the batch mode. The same mode
> can be seen in acpiexec.
> 
> However people may think this is not useful for an in-kernel debugger,
> because the in-kernel debugger is always running, never exits. So we can
> run another command by running another acpidbg batch mode instance.
> 
> But this mode should still be useful for acpidbg. The reason is: when the
> in-kernel debugger has entered the single-stepping mode, ending acpidbg
> (which closes the debugger IO interface) will lead to the end of the
> single-stepping mode.
> 
> So we need the acpidbg multi-commands batch mode in order to execute
> multiple single-stepping mode commands in the batch mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>

Does this depend on the kernel flushing support series?

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH 0/3] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-14 05:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] debugfs: Add .fsync() callback proxy support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-14 05:00 +0200
    RE: [PATCH 1/3] debugfs: Add .fsync() callback proxy support "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-19 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/2] tools/power/acpi/acpidbg: Use new flushing mechanism Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-19 12:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 0/2] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-19 12:10 +0200
    [PATCH v2 1/2] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-19 12:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-21 15:40 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 02:40 +0200
  [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi-commands support in batch mode Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-20 10:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi-commands support in batch mode "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-21 15:50 +0200
      RE: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi-commands  support in batch mode "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 02:30 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/3] tools/power/acpi/acpidbg: Use new flushing mechanism Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 06:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 06:20 +0200
    [PATCH v3 1/3] ACPI / debugger: Add kernel flushing support Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 06:20 +0200
    [PATCH v3 3/3] tools/power/acpi/acpidbg: Add multi-commands support in batch mode Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> - 2016-07-22 06:20 +0200

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