Recent Posts Tagged With 'kernel'

• Dumping kernel page tables

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 in Linux, kernel, debugfs, 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

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 00:42 in debug, kernel, module, gdb

  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 ...

• Fake NUMA nodes in Linux

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 in kernel, emulation, numa, fake numa

  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...

• Division Between Users And Kernel Hackers On Git Bisect

  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 08:21 in kernel, git

  The source code management tool git has come under scanner again. This time for a different reason. Flame war's are pretty common in linux community. Everytime there is a divided opinion on certain things, it unlocks a fury of mails from the communit...