Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:37:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:37:42 -0500 Received: from d12lmsgate-4.de.ibm.com ([194.196.100.237]:8431 "EHLO d12lmsgate-4.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:37:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Richard J Moore Organization: Linux Technoilogy Centre To: Madhavi , Subject: Re: Kernel debugger Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:06:14 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200301221806.14885.rasman@uk.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:17 am, Madhavi wrote: If you need to debug a complex problem where stepping through or even pin-pointing roughtly the right code location then you might consider dprobes/kprobes. Richard > Hi > > I am currently testing a device driver on linux-2.4.19. This is > implemented as a loadable kernel module. > > # Could anyone suggest a good debugger that can be used to debug kernel > modules? > > # When I tried using gdb with vmlinux and /proc/kcore, I am getting a > message saying that no debug symbols are found. How do I enable debug > symbols for linux kernel image? Kernel Debug is already enabled. Is > there some other configuration that needs to be there? > > Thanks in advance. > > regards > Madhavi. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Richard J Moore IBM Linux Technology Centre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/