On various occasions, I’ve received inquiries about how to install and start using WinDbg. For this reason, in this post, I’m going to show you how to configure an environment with WinDbg and virtual ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

The Linux kernel debugger (KDB) allows you to debug the Linux kernel. This aptly named tool is essentially a patch to the kernel code that lets hackers access kernel memory and data structures. One of ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

Your new project really could use a block device for Linux. File systems are easy to do with FUSE, but that’s sometimes too high-level. But a block driver can be tough to write and debug, ...

Embedded Linux as an operating system for modern ARM processors? Maybe not such a bad idea? Linux is a multitasking operating system and therefore, each process must be assigned its own process ...

Editor's Note: This content is excerpted from Chapter 11 of Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques, authored by Steve Best, ISBN 0-13-149247-0 ...

Advanced iOS kernel debugging for exploit developers: A presentation by Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) at the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne, Australia. Synopsis: With the release of iOS 6 Apple ...