Debugging

This page is the starting point for everything that relates to debugging. The intend is to collect everything we need to remember or need to know in a single place to make sure that support for debugging processes as well as kernels becomes well-supported and bug-free in the future.

• Developer Handbook - Kernel Options for Debugging (Old Wiki Version)
• TheGnuDebugger
• LLDB debugger
• Developer Handbook - Kernel debugging with Dcons (Old Wiki Version)
• DTrace

• BSDCan 2008: Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel by JohnBaldwin
• Kernel debugging class (Slides & Tutorial) by Greg Lehey (2006)
• FOSDEM 2010: Debugging the FreeBSD kernel for dummies by ShteryanaShopova
• Profiling and Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel (2009) by Ray Kinsella (Intel® Software)

• LLDB is a debugger based on LLVM and CLANG under a “BSD-style” license.

• Pathscale's PathDB was ported to FreeBSD and it's available on github

• The Solaris Modular Debugger MDB would be an interesting port due to it's Dtrace support.