Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761081AbZDSO1s (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:27:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758437AbZDSO1i (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:27:38 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46716 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756565AbZDSO1h (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:27:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:29:34 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Task Struct From Hell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how to build a vmlinux with debugging symbols? Message-ID: <20090419072934.592127af@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 29 On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:18:33 +0100 Task Struct From Hell wrote: > List, > > I am trying to figure out why one of my servers crashed, I have some C > and ASM knowledge and back in the 2.2 days I even wrote a few modules > to the Linux kernel, but now I am completely lost in the 2.6 kbuild > and as such, can someone point into some documentation on debugging > vmcore's and how to enable debugging symbols so using gdb wont be as > painful? :-) Hi, just enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO configure option... (and you can use the sripts/markup_oops.pl script to help decode oopses.. no need for gdb) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/