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Remote kernel debugging in FreeBSD using serial communication (developerWorks)

[Posted March 9, 2007 by ris]

IBM developerWorks takes a look at debugging a FreeBSD kernel. "Explore how to remotely debug a FreeBSD kernel that is running on a target machine without affecting system performance. In this article, examine setting up the debug environment using serial communication port, compiling modified kernel code, debugging, and troubleshooting tips."

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Local kernel debugging on GNU/Linux

Posted Mar 9, 2007 20:03 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

At Fosdem 2007 Jim Blandy showed an impressive hack to debug the linux kernel on a running system using dynamic tracepoints set by using kprobes (video, slides, project page). Very impressive seeing emacs and gdb running on the same machine and kernel being debugged.