It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Debugging the software in a complex real-time system is particularly challenging because the manifestation of a bug is frequently far removed from the actual occurrence of the bug-in both time and ...

Kprobes is a mechanism used to register breakpoints and corresponding handlers. After enabling Kprobes support in the kernel, we can debug any instruction at any kernel address. This article explains ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

PITTSBURGH, April 22, 2010 -- Timesys® Corporation (http://www.timesys.com), provider of award-winning embedded Linux solutions and support, and Lauterbach, leader ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHAT: Digi-Key’s Continuing Education Center presents Linux Kernel Debugging. The lecturer for this session is Michael Anderson who is currently CTO and Chief Scientist for The PTR ...