* Damian Gerow <dge...@afflictions.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
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