It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

内核总是那么捉摸不透, 内核也会犯错, 但是调试却不能像用户空间程序那样, 为此内核开发者为我们提供了一系列的工具和系统来支持内核的调试. 内核的调试, 其本质是内核空间与用户空间的数据交换, 内核开发者们提供了多样的形式来完成这一功能. 2 用户空间 ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

Debugging the software in a complex real-time system is particularly challenging because the manifestation of a bug is frequently far removed from the actual occurrence of the bug-in both time and ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

If you’ve ever done Linux memory forensics, you know the frustration: without debug symbols that match the exact kernel version, you’re stuck. These symbols aren’t typically installed on production ...

SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 11, 2014) - Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced a new MULTI® software development ...

Intel(R) System Studio Developer Story : With XDB and MinnowBoard MAX , how to debug exception errors in the Android-Linux-Kernel. In this article, we can see how to ...