From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel mode console
Date: 03 Mar 2004 18:18:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73fzcp4zo5.fsf@brahms.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com> writes:
> i have some bandwidth i can dedicate to writting a kernel module that provides
> a command interpreter running in kernel space (think of it as the god mode
> console in quake). the purpose for this would be primarily aimed at the
> kernel developers so they can reach in and grab variables, dump certain
> sections of memory, walk memory, dump code segments, dump processes
> (including the kernel data structures for them), anything else i/you can
> think of. is this a waste of time, or would that get used?
It sounds like you're trying to reinvent kdb, sysrq, kgdb, lcrash/crash,
gdb vmlinux /proc/vmlinux
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-03-03 17:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-03 3:52 kernel mode console Billy Rose
2004-03-03 3:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-03 17:09 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-03 16:49 ` Tim Bird
2004-03-04 4:12 ` Krishnakumar. R
2004-03-05 0:58 ` Billy Rose
2004-03-05 3:20 ` Rob Couto
2004-03-05 11:47 ` John Bradford
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