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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Any successful story of debugging linux 4.13 with qemu 2.10 and gdb 8.01?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:01:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921090105.GA8394@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOhBGduwycQZvzw3BfE3_snpa35fGHsbwTcfCjwptAGxRTKftQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:43:08AM +0200, jjDaNiMoTh wrote:
> 
> 
> 2017-09-21 9:21 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> 
>    
>     Why do you think that it requires developers to use a debugger and qemu
>     to test their code?? I've never used a debugger on the kernel in all of
>     my years of kernel development...
> 
> 
> 
> I imagined that, at least in early development phases, developers can benefit
> from the use of a debugger, but it seems that I was wrong. Of course, for
> newbies like me, a debugger is essential to understand flow and relations
> between kernel code, and I'm happy that this solution is already in the
> documentation (unfortunately, not for the version I was using, 4.13). Maybe the
> patch pointed out by Saket can be backported to releases which have the
> possibility to enable KALSR, such as 4.9 (LTS) and 4.13 itself (stable)?

Sure, you can request it, look at the documentation here for how to do
that:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20  8:18 Any successful story of debugging linux 4.13 with qemu 2.10 and gdb 8.01? jjDaNiMoTh
2017-09-20 15:20 ` 慕冬亮
2017-09-20 19:29   ` jjDaNiMoTh
2017-09-21  7:21     ` Greg KH
2017-09-21  7:29       ` Saket Sinha
2017-09-21  8:43       ` jjDaNiMoTh
2017-09-21  9:01         ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-09-21 17:08     ` 慕冬亮
2017-09-22  6:09       ` Saket Sinha

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