Bug 591885

Summary:	Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on kernel-debug package
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Matthew Whitehead <mwhitehe>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	sghosh, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.0
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Description Matthew Whitehead 2010-05-13 12:40:09 UTC

Description of problem: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on kernel-debug package


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL6.0


Disable the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA config option for the kernel-debug package. It is normally on, but should be disabled in the kernel-debug package so you can attach a remote debugger to it.

When this is enabled (normal situation), it causes breakpoints to fail. This makes a kernel debugger essentially useless.

Since so many configuration options are changed in the kernel-debug package, this is the right package to toggle the CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-13 14:07:01 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.