On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 chethans@wwdg.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was interested in developing some utilies on Linux. Wanted to know
> whether during a kernel panic due to memory corruption, are
> there any tools (like the Kmem debug driver) to find out the culprit
> in such cases.
ksymoops
objdump
Read linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt. Their are special keys that return
important information.
Then their is the imfamous gdb. Yes you can use gdb but it takes a little
work and you can approach debugging in several ways.
kdebug ? Might be outdated now.
> Just wanted to make sure if there are any before starting on
> this. Also wanted to know if there is anything like kernel hot
> patching, where in you patch the kernel without rebooting the system.
Modules :)
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