On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 17:40, linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> I'm vaguely daydreaming about a few KDB enhancements, I was curious if
> you've thought about them:
>
> -- 'cat /proc/meminfo' Turns out one bug I was chasing was OOM on
> a machine with 32GB of RAM (!) and it took me days to even think
> of looking there.
>
> -- Support for examining structures symbolically. I've had to walk
> the buffer cache by hand in the past, I've walked task struct
> by hand yesterday, and they guy down the hall stares at network
> structs.
>
While we are dreaming :) complete source level debugging would be very
useful. I was thinking this would best be done over serial or ethernet
with a kdb engine running in the target kernel. This would allow a
debugger to use the kdb commands to symbolicly debug a running kernel.
Much better then kgdb, which lacks many of the functionalities required
by a good kernel debugger.
> I don't know if it would be better to handle a few of these as
> special-cases in some simple manner, or if some more complex but
> generic mechanism would be better ...
>
> --linas
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