Re: debugging LKMs with GDB

[Ajey Kulkarni <ajey@xxxxxxx>]

kgdb should help.
http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/

~A

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Shakthi Kannan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:07:47 +0530, Himanshu Chauhan
> <meethimanshuchauhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As we can debug user space programs with GDB, how can we debug the
> > loadable kernel modules
> > with GDB.
>
> I believe it can be done. You can probably even use ddd (Data Display
> Debugger). But, you may have to pass /proc/kcore to gdb.
>
> x86
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