process to inspect generated assembly of a function

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:23:35 -0400, Andev said:

> I am trying to inspect the generated assembly for a function in the
> kernel. Are there any documents explaining how to do this? I want to
> see how it changes when I change the function body.

The same exact way you'd do it for any .o file for userspace.

objdump and gdb are your friends.
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