Exception Analysis tools

There are lots of tools for Linux for analyzing and debugging exceptions in both the kernel and user-space programs.

Outline

• capturing information
  • information emitted to kernel buffer
    • serial console, net console, (other consoles - USB?)
    • Oops savers: mtdoops, pstore, ramoops, netoops
  • process exceptions
    • android tombstones (exception summaries)
    • Sony exception monitor log
    • coredumps (full process image)
  • kernel image
    • kdump
      • see Kernel crash logging and core dump - Kong Wang, Redhat, at LinuxCon Japan 2011
• parsing information
  • oops analysis: http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/DevDocs/KernelOops
  • GDB is used with coredump files
    • see GDB#Core_dump