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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] which kernel debugger is "best"?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:18:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA52E8F.C8D0E5F8@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010b01c1d794$07c7c9b0$7e0aa8c0@bridge>

Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> 
> What are people using?

kgdb.  Tried kdb and (sorry, Keith), it's not in the same
league.  Not by miles.

>  neither kdb or kgdb appear to support
> 2.5.7 (kdb does 2.5.5)...

General answer to this is to go for a foray in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/

Which turns up
	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.7/kgdb.patch

> or do real men debug with prink() ?

I have done it both ways, extensively, for long periods.
The printk method is comically inefficient.  The amount
of transparency whch kgdb gives to kernel internals is
extraordinary.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-30  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-30  2:38 [QUESTION] which kernel debugger is "best"? Jeremy Jackson
2002-03-30  3:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-30  3:46   ` Keith Owens
2002-03-30  4:24     ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-30  4:25       ` David S. Miller
2002-03-30 15:22       ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-01  9:20         ` Amit S. Kale
2002-04-01 13:44       ` Philip R. Auld
2002-03-30  4:04 ` Keith Owens

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