From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Task Struct From Hell <taskstructfromhell@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to build a vmlinux with debugging symbols?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:29:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419072934.592127af@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef37ea20904190718p2d5164efib231cc9f468854c2@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:18:33 +0100
Task Struct From Hell <taskstructfromhell@googlemail.com> wrote:
> List,
>
> I am trying to figure out why one of my servers crashed, I have some C
> and ASM knowledge and back in the 2.2 days I even wrote a few modules
> to the Linux kernel, but now I am completely lost in the 2.6 kbuild
> and as such, can someone point into some documentation on debugging
> vmcore's and how to enable debugging symbols so using gdb wont be as
> painful? :-)
Hi,
just enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO configure option...
(and you can use the sripts/markup_oops.pl script to help decode
oopses.. no need for gdb)
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