Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:50:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:
>debugging. neither IKD nor kdb are ported to 2.3 at the moment. i'd love >it if they were integrated into the kernel and enabled/disabled via >CONFIG. i would even do some of this myself if i thought such a patch
The IKD patch has very intensive changes all over the place and it would decrease the readability of the kerenl. kdb instead is very localized.
>the kernel and paw through data structures. how are people getting that >kind of information now in 2.3 (that was a genuine question, not >rhetorical)?
I try to avoid having to go through data structures via debugger. I prefer adding printk in such cases. Often I also hack the sysrq keys to generate stack traces and not only the EIP addresses. But that's my way I don't know what other people is doing.
>no arguments there!
:)
Andrea
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