It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

Kernel debugging systems can slow the kernel enough to hide or change the bugs they’re looking for. A new tracing system would minimize the performance penalty of running with tracing on. LTTng relies ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

The Linux Kernel is written in C programming language, so C is the most important language for the Linux Kernel developer. Initially, the kernel was written in GNU C (now it is also possible to build ...

Intel(R) System Studio Developer Story : With XDB and MinnowBoard MAX , how to debug exception errors in the Android-Linux-Kernel. In this article, we can see how to ...

Advanced iOS kernel debugging for exploit developers: A presentation by Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) at the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne, Australia. Synopsis: With the release of iOS 6 Apple ...

4. Using a Intel ® JTAG debugger (XDB) for exceptions of Android Kernel on MinnowBoard MAX. We see the step by step procedure of using Intel ® JTAG debugger to check and debug the exception in a ...