Linux Kernel Debugging
By Dean A. Gereaux, November 01, 2005
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Dean explains how to debug drivers with Linux Kernel Debugger, add hooks into KDB from your drivers, and create KDB modules.
November, 2005: Linux Kernel Debugging
Entering kdb (current=0xc0355f80, pid 0) on processor 0 due to Keyboard Entry 0]kdb> ?
Command Usage Description
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md <vaddr> Display Memory Contents, also mdWcN, e.g. md8c1
mdr <vaddr> <bytes> Display Raw Memory
<-- snip more commands than shown here -->
be <bpnum> Enable Breakpoint
bd <bpnum> Disable Breakpoint
ss Single Step
ssb Single step to branch/call
pt_regs address Format struct pt_regs
tkdata_drv [num lines] Dumps tank datum array (from drv)
tkthrd_drv Display tank thread state (from drv)
tankdata [num lines] Dumps tank datum array
tankthrd Display tank thread state
[0]kdb>
Figure 1: Help command.
