Re: Memory Leaks/Corruption.

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Daniele ... please do pass on the tutorial. 
On the web we get a lot of stuff, but if you have something nice I will not have to search it out.

thanks
Deepankar.

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:15, Daniele Bellucci wrote:
> On Thu 12 June 2003 11:38, Deepankar Vidyarthi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have written a kernel module. But it seems this guy is corrupting
> > memory somewhere because of which I get kernel segmentation and then
> > panic.
> >
> > I tried looking into the problem using kgdb, but I am not getting proper
> > information regarding where the problem is arising from. The code seems
> > alright (which is always the case for the person who writes it ;)).
> >
> > I wanted to know whether there are any ways (tools, etc) to catch memory
> > leaks or memory corruption for kernel modules.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Deepankar.
> 
> I had the same problem months ago.... i've solved by using ksymoops to examine call trace before oops occour.
> I didn't used kgdb, i've just played with kcore, gdb and a -g kernel image.
> If you have trouble on finding the oopsy line in source code, feel free to contact
> i've  a little tutorial showing some usefull tricks to match ksymoops output with source code (both for source kernel and device driver).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Daniele.
> 
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