* Damian Gerow <dgerow [ at ] afflictions [ dot ] org> [090812 21:03]: > : Finally there is kgdb. This allows you to connect a debugger to a > : running kernel. kgdb can work over serial (kgdboc) or ethernet > : (module kgdboe). Unfortunately, the kgdboe is not available in mainline > : kernels, and I don't know if SuSE ships it. > > That's good to know as well, though I'm surprised the panic doesn't give you > the option to drop into a kgdb prompt directly. I'm not sure if kgdb will > pan out for us, but we rarely need to diagnose a crash as soon as it > happened -- so long as we have a vmcore to analyze later, that's sufficient. Amongst other things, kgdb gives you breakpoints, and allows you to step through the code. Not all bugs result in a crash :) -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/