novice question -- live kernel debugging?

Mikhail Sukhar (mikhail@netcom.com)
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:04:56 PST


Hi everybody!

Could somebody direct me to the texts explaining a bit more
about kernel debugging. I can always use printfs and I understand
how to debug a crash dump, i.e. to find from symbol map and EIP
the place using gdb the offending lines of code. However I can't
find any FAQa/HOWTOs on how to debug live kernel, or at least to
force it to crash. Could something like /dev/kmem be used?

Thanks,
Michael

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