Debug Hacks, Table of Contents

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I've translated Debug Hacks table of contents into English.
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DEBUG HACKS,
english translation by Hiro Yoshioka
6/25/09

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1 what is a debug
2 road maps of debug hacks
3 hints of debug

Chapter 2 The Things you have to know before debugging
4 how to get core dump of a process
5 introduction of gdb
6 introduction of gdb, part 2
7 introduction of gdb, part 3
8 basic of Intel architecture
9 basic of stack
10 basic of parameter passing of function call (x86_64)
11 basic of parameter passing of function call (i386)
12 basic of parameter passing of function call (C++)
13 how to learn assembly language
14 mapping between source code and assembly code

Chapter 3 Getting Started Kernel Debug
15 how to read Oops messages
16 connecting serial console using minicom
17 getting kernel messages thru network
18 debug using SysRq key
19 getting kernel crash dumps using diskdump
20 getting kernel crash dumps using Kdump
21 how to use crash
22 getting kernel crash dumps using IPMI watchdog timer when a kernel freeze
23 getting kernel crash dumps using NMI watchdog timer when a kernel freeze
24 assembly language idiom in the kernel source code
25 assembly language idiom in the kernel source code, part 2

Chapter 4 Practice of application debug
26 application program aborts SIGSEGV
27 corruption of a back trace information
28 destroying memory by invalid access of an array
29 detecting invalid access using watch point of gdb
30 defects and faults of malloc() and free()
31 application stall (deadlock)
32 application stall (infinite loop)

Chapter 5 Practice of kernel debug
33 kernel panic (NULL pointer)
34 kernel panic (destruction of list data)
35 kernel panic (race condition)
36 kernel stall (infinite loop)
37 kernel stall (spin lock)
38 kernel stall (spin lock, part 2)
39 kernel stall (semaphore)
40 stall of real time process
41 slow down
42 high cpu load

Chapter 6 Debug Techniques
43 using strace to detect the cause of error
44 useful options of objdump
45 how to use Valgrind (basic)
46 how to use Valgrind (advance)
47 getting kernel internal status using kprobes
48 getting kernel internal status using jprobes
49 getting kernel internal status using kprobes (inserting probes)
50 getting kernel internal status using kprobes (inspecting variables)
51 getting value of a variable optimized out by a compiler using KAHO
52 debugging running linux kernel using systemtap
53 debugging running linux kernel using systemtap, part2
54 reading /proc/meminfo
55 /proc/PID/mem to read contents of memory
56 behavior and implementation of OOM Killer
57 fault injection
58 finding hidden bug in the linux kernel using a fault injection
59 init section of linux kernel
60 solving performance issues
61 getting information using VMware Vprobe
62 getting memory dump by XEN
63 understanding an implementation of a function call thru GOT/PLT
64 debugging an initramfs image
65 detecting a stall of a realtime process by RT Watchdog
66 check 64bit capability of intel x86 processor

The editor of Debug Hacks gave me the following description of this book in English. Thanks Ryoko Akaike

HIGHLIGHT

This explains the debug techniques fully under the long term development of Linux Kernel and application development process. This book covers the necessary preparation, its knowledge, quick finding tools of problems and how to solve them quickly by using the most useful techniques and tools. There are many examples to be used in the book. This book helps the Linux development engineers.

Mr. Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby strongly recommends this book for the process of programming development.


DESCRIPTION

This book provides the feature of the debugging techniques of Linux development
Engineers.
The readers can :
- Know how to find the problems.
- Prepare for the knowledge to find the problems.
- Find the bugs of the system.
- Amend the problems.
- Get the useful techniques and tools.
- Get the most effective tools in the development stage.

Master the problem solving techniques by the detailed examples.

ABOUT THE KEY AUTHORS
Mr. Hirotaka Yoshioka
Dr. Kazuhiro Yamato
Mr. Naohiro Ooiwa
Mr. Toyo Abe
Mr. Shunsuke Yoshida

All engineers belong to Miracle Linux Corporation, which provides the Linux
System packages and its global consulting services of Linux to the various
Corporations in Japan.