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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: Re: xen-kernel and EDD
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:24:11 +0100
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On 25/08/2011 10:50, "Lin-Bao Zhang" <2004.zhang@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Keir,
> 
> I have another question about debugging Xen-hypervisor.
> Do you have some advanced debugging method ?
> 
> I am reviewing xen source code, I just find in ../Config.mk there is a
> debug = y
> in xen/Rules.mk ,there is only "verbose" and "crash_debug" .
> 
> but just now , I recompile xen source to restore the INT13 error , but
> I didn't see any useful and valuable messages.
> 
> do you have some comments ?thanks very much!
> in a word, can you share your debugging experience ?  I think this
> will be very useful for all xen source developers and debuggers.

I build with debug=y to turn on assertions and more verbose printing. I then
generally add extra printk tracing to close in on a specific bug. That's it
really.

 -- Keir

> -Bob