On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:51:11 +0530, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:07:47 +0530, Himanshu Chauhan > <meethimanshuchauhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As we can debug user space programs with GDB, how can we debug the > > loadable kernel modules > > with GDB. > > I believe it can be done. You can probably even use ddd (Data Display > Debugger). But, you may have to pass /proc/kcore to gdb. You can, but not from the same box. As was mentioned by Ajey Kulkarni in an earlier post, kgdb should help here - it's a patch to the kernel which allows remote debugging from a second host, whereas kdb (without the g) is a built-in debugger that won't give you quite the level of debug. Note that Linus does not bless kernel debuggers, but he has come around to understanding a use for Dprobes. Perhaps it's worth using probes as an alternative to a full debugger. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
