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Re: To know the more about debugging feature of Systemtap
- From: Arkady <arkady dot miasnikov at gmail dot com>
- To: "Neil k.thomas" <neilkthomas27 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:30:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: To know the more about debugging feature of Systemtap
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You are probably looking for kgdb
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Neil k.thomas <neilkthomas27@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir,
>
> I am new to Systemtap tool and have doubts regarding its debugging
> capabilities . Is this tool able to debug all the layers in Linux kernel.
> Logical kernel layers like System call interface, Process management, File
> system, Network stack and Device drivers. To what extend we can debug the
> kernel and gather the debug information?.
>
> Can you share the documents on debugging features of this tool. It will be
> very helpful if you can give details of Linux kernel module specific
> debugging features , capabilities and limitations.
>
> Thank you!