[Crash-utility] Using crash to set a breakpoint

[Dave Anderson]

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> Is it possible to set a gdb breakpoint when using crash to debug a
> live kernel? I would like to do this in RHEL 6. I’ve tried using
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> Crash> gdb break 0xffff…. Only to have crash return “crash:
> prohibited gdb command: break. Is there any way to “make” this work?

Definitely not, that's why it's been explicitly prohibited.

The crash utility is just a plain old user-space program.
If you were able to set a kernel breakpoint, who would
field the interrupt?  That's what kgdb, the built-in kdb
debugger, kprobes, systemtap, etc. are for.

Dave


> Thanks,
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> Jeff