On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:09:59PM +0500, david jhon wrote: > In order to debug ovs kernel module in gdb, I have set a breakpoint at > ovs_dp_process_packet() method in datapath/datapath.c, generating traffic > with ping command from one mininet host to other, but not able to debug it > at all because on running n in gdb, I get "The program is not being run." > > I am using the following steps to debug openvswitch kernel module: > -> gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore > -> cd /sys/modules/openvswitch/sections/; ls A1; cat .text .data .bss > -> add-symbol-file /root/ovs/_build-gcc/datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko > 0xf8819000 \ > -s .data 0xf8825000 \ > -s .bss 0xf8825380 > b datapath/datapath.c:288 > > Please guide me how do I make it work.
I don't think you can debug the kernel that way. I know a few kernel programmers. None of them have ever mentioned using GDB to debug the kernel. I don't think it's commonly done. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
