Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel mode console | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 03 Mar 2004 18:18:34 +0100 |
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Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com> writes:
> i have some bandwidth i can dedicate to writting a kernel module that provides > a command interpreter running in kernel space (think of it as the god mode > console in quake). the purpose for this would be primarily aimed at the > kernel developers so they can reach in and grab variables, dump certain > sections of memory, walk memory, dump code segments, dump processes > (including the kernel data structures for them), anything else i/you can > think of. is this a waste of time, or would that get used?
It sounds like you're trying to reinvent kdb, sysrq, kgdb, lcrash/crash, gdb vmlinux /proc/vmlinux
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