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Linux Hacks and News
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My Blog provides various hacks, news and views on linux and all the cool new features provided in it. A must see resource for all network kernel hackers.
- Author: Varun Chandramohan
- Listed in: Programming Software
- Tags: news Computers Linux Networking howto hacking
Recent Posts
Real-Time Linux Kernel Scheduler
My article explaining the Real-Time Linux kernel scheduler is finally available for general reading on the Linux Journal site. You can read it here. Any feedback on the article are most welcome !...
Dumping kernel page tables
Sometimes when debugging kernel issues, you might come across kernel addresses that you would find very difficult to map to a particular section in the kernel, ie, vmalloc, vmemmap, low/high kernel mapping, kernel text, etc. On x86, Arjan van de Ven ...
Using gdb for debugging kernel modules
This is a very simple and maybe trivial post.. and nothing novel ! But something that has helped me a lot in debugging issues with my kernel modules and kernel panics in general. So, when you get a panic originating in a kernel module, you normally ...
Looking at thread state inside gdb
While helping a friend debug a multi-threaded application hang on linux, using gdb. She was facing difficulty in pointing out exactly which were the threads that were in blocked state. Getting thread info only tells us what the thread ids are and th...
Fake NUMA nodes in Linux
While NUMA systems are becoming commonplace, many a times we do not have access to such systems when either writng new code, understanding NUMA architecture, conducting experiments or debugging existing code. For such cases, the Linux kernel provides...
Build your kernel faster
Normally when building custom kernels for our laptops or desktops, we tend to make use of the kernel config file used by the particular distro. However the distro config files tend to be huge, having loads of modules turned on, ven those which might ...
