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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
- kdump
- information emitted to kernel buffer
- parsing information
- oops analysis: http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/DevDocs/KernelOops
- GDB is used with coredump files
- see GDB#Core_dump