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Re: Fosdem impressions, frysk, packaging, tracepoints, kprobes and gdb
- From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- To: Frysk List <frysk at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:59:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fosdem impressions, frysk, packaging, tracepoints, kprobes and gdb
- References: <1172584523.3777.66.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org>
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:55 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Driving home the point that we might actually share much more ideas with
> something like gdb was the talk by Jim Blandy on gdb, tracepoints and
> kprobes for debugging the linux kernel you are running
> on your machine. This was really fascinating and he gave a very
> impressive demo of collecting live trace data on the machine he was
> giving the presentation on and then using the captured information to
> drive gdb to show the call-stack, registers, function arguments and
> contents of various structs passed around at various times during the
> trace. http://www.red-bean.com/trac/tracepoints
The video (Ogg/Theora) of his presentation is online at:
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-GDBTracePoints.ogg
Cheers,
Mark