[CentOS] How do I debug the kernel?

James Olin Oden james.oden at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 21:38:21 UTC 2007


On 3/6/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:48:01PM -0500, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote:
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> > >Humm, not that I know of. And considering we are talking about PC hardware
> > >here (are we?), I can't imagine how it can be possible.
> > I'm definately no expert here, but PC hardware has many hardware level
> > debuging hooks that apps such as oprofile take advantage of.
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> Sure does, but how does one recover from a hardware lockup ?
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Well say the PCI buses timing gets hosed and the whole system seizes
up what do you intened to do at that point (that is a hardware
lockup)?  And what does that thing you do have to do with debuging a
kernel?  Just curious.

> Even if it were possible to have that kind of debugging, it would be
> fairly limited.
When you say "hardware" I start thinking jtag interfaces, or even more
interesting was this thing we would place every pin of the processor
through and then connect to the socket on the motherboard, but I think
I missing something.

Cheers...james
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