Some guys are likely to prefer complex tools, but I'm a simple guy. My first try at debugging is printing. Using pr_debug is not always possible so ftrace and early printk may be useful. Another tool that comes with kernel and that is amazing is perf. You may find undercover bottlenecks with this one. Really really useful. Being able to read kernel stack traces is a good skill too,, I tried kgdb over serial at some embedded system. Apparently the serial driver was not capable of running kgdb.. Some polling mechanism was needed, but not implemented.. at least, this was written at some forum and I didn't do further investigation... Here are some links: http://elinux.org/Debugging_by_printing https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tutorial http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/crash-book.html Regards, 2016-12-03 16:46 GMT-02:00 John Smith <PR2723@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Andrey, > > Can you help post some good/still relevant links? Call me stupid, I did > google, found a few websites, and most of them are kind of out of > contexts(don't know how to follow). For beginners, step-by-step tutorials > are the best. so far, sounds like kgdb is promising, but it requires a lot > of backgrounds to start with. I still have not figured out the exact steps. > > Thank you, > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:15:44 +0000 > From: Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Debugging tool for Linux kernel and driver development > To: Teoh Choon Zone <choon-zone.teoh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <20161202231544.GB23301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:27:01PM +0800, Teoh Choon Zone wrote: >> What are some widely used industrial tools (software/ hardware) for >> debugging Linux kernel and driver? Recently my company allocate a budget >> for purchasing this kind of tools, so I would like what are the tools that >> would greatly ease our development. > > You'd better budget some time to google a bit and watch conference > videos showing debugging techniques :) There are fine videos from past > Kernel Recipes conferences. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- "Do or do not. There is no try" Yoda Master _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
