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From: chris@basementcode.com (Christopher Harvey)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Debugging a custom kernel
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:12:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9010b514b542a9cbf4352593059f25cd@basementcode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110629212741.GG5604@hermes>

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:27:41 +0200, Apelete Seketeli wrote:
> On 29-Jun-11, Christopher Harvey wrote:
>> On 06/29/11 16:14, Apelete Seketeli wrote:
>>  > I still can't
>> > figure where the boot process is getting stuck with step-by-step
>> > execution, but it seems that the last function called is 
>> "delay_loop"
>> > from arch/x86/lib/delay.c.
>> Have you run the backtrace (bt) command from the gdb shell? That 
>> should
>> tell you what function is calling the __delay.
>
> I didn't, will try that and see if it helps.

That command is your bread and butter. If you type "up" into gdb it 
will take you to the line that called __delay. Keep typing up to see 
exactly what series of functions were called to get to the __delay.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-30 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-29 20:14 Debugging a custom kernel Apelete Seketeli
2011-06-29 16:41 ` Christopher Harvey
2011-06-29 21:27   ` Apelete Seketeli
2011-06-30 13:12     ` Christopher Harvey [this message]
2011-06-29 20:42 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer

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