From eccf2986513cc41c412b1c30aa5dcb88a4c981b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:58:51 +0100 Subject: Add links to some LWN articles, and then some. --- open_issues/debugging.mdwn | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/debugging.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues/debugging.mdwn') diff --git a/open_issues/debugging.mdwn b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..95b7bf9b --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + + +# Existing + +We have debugging infrastructure. For example: + + * [[GDB]] + + * [[GNU Mach debugging|microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging]] + + * [[GNU Hurd debugging|hurd/debugging]], including + [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]] and more. + + +# To Do + + * [[ltrace]] + + * [[latrace]] + + * [[profiling]] + + * *[Checkpoint/restart](http://lwn.net/Articles/412749/) allows the state of + a set of processes to be saved to persistent storage, then restarted at + some future time* -- quoting from Jonathan Corbet's 2010 Linux Kernel + Summit report. + + This is surely a very useful facility to have for reproducing failures, for + example. But on the other hand it's questionable how it can help with + debugging failures in [[GNU Hurd server|hurd/translator]]s' interactions, + as their state is typically spread between several processes. + + * [[locking]] -- cgit v1.2.3