Re: [QUESTION] which kernel debugger is "best"?

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:18:39 -0800


Jeremy Jackson wrote:
>
> What are people using?

kgdb. Tried kdb and (sorry, Keith), it's not in the same
league. Not by miles.

> neither kdb or kgdb appear to support
> 2.5.7 (kdb does 2.5.5)...

General answer to this is to go for a foray in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/

Which turns up
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.7/kgdb.patch

> or do real men debug with prink() ?

I have done it both ways, extensively, for long periods.
The printk method is comically inefficient. The amount
of transparency whch kgdb gives to kernel internals is
extraordinary.

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