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diff --git a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt index 10711d9f078..462321c1aee 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ ldd Debugging modules The proc file system Starting points for debugging scripting languages etc. -Dumptool & Lcrash SysRq References Special Thanks @@ -1984,7 +1983,7 @@ break *$pc break *0x400618 -heres a really useful one for large programs +Here's a really useful one for large programs rbr Set a breakpoint for all functions matching REGEXP e.g. @@ -2211,7 +2210,7 @@ Breakpoint 2 at 0x4d87a4: file top.c, line 2609. #5 0x51692c in readline_internal () at readline.c:521 #6 0x5164fe in readline (prompt=0x7ffff810 "\177ÿøx\177ÿ÷Ø\177ÿøxÀ") at readline.c:349 -#7 0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prrompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1, +#7 0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1, annotation_suffix=0x4d6b44 "prompt") at top.c:2091 #8 0x4d6cf0 in command_loop () at top.c:1345 #9 0x4e25bc in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffffdf4) at main.c:635 @@ -2273,7 +2272,7 @@ IP forwarding is on. There is a lot of useful info in here best found by going in & having a look around, so I'll take you through some entries I consider important. -All the processes running on the machine have there own entry defined by +All the processes running on the machine have their own entry defined by /proc/<pid> So lets have a look at the init process cd /proc/1 @@ -2455,39 +2454,6 @@ jdb <filename> another fully interactive gdb style debugger. -Dumptool & Lcrash ( lkcd ) -========================== -Michael Holzheu & others here at IBM have a fairly mature port of -SGI's lcrash tool which allows one to look at kernel structures in a -running kernel. - -It also complements a tool called dumptool which dumps all the kernel's -memory pages & registers to either a tape or a disk. -This can be used by tech support or an ambitious end user do -post mortem debugging of a machine like gdb core dumps. - -Going into how to use this tool in detail will be explained -in other documentation supplied by IBM with the patches & the -lcrash homepage http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/ & the lcrash manpage. - -How they work -------------- -Lcrash is a perfectly normal program,however, it requires 2 -additional files, Kerntypes which is built using a patch to the -linux kernel sources in the linux root directory & the System.map. - -Kerntypes is an objectfile whose sole purpose in life -is to provide stabs debug info to lcrash, to do this -Kerntypes is built from kerntypes.c which just includes the most commonly -referenced header files used when debugging, lcrash can then read the -.stabs section of this file. - -Debugging a live system it uses /dev/mem -alternatively for post mortem debugging it uses the data -collected by dumptool. - - - SysRq ===== This is now supported by linux for s/390 & z/Architecture. @@ -2531,5 +2497,5 @@ Special Thanks ============== Special thanks to Neale Ferguson who maintains a much prettier HTML version of this page at -http://penguinvm.princeton.edu/notes.html#Debug390 +http://linuxvm.org/penguinvm/ Bob Grainger Stefan Bader & others for reporting bugs |