Any tracing mechanism can track the executed instructions of a user process in the kernel?

FMDF fmdefrancesco at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 06:12:15 EDT 2021


On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, 11:48 FMDF, <fmdefrancesco at gmail.com> wrote:

Now I recall that, by using Perf,  somehow I was able to go interactively
> down to the assembly code and see where it was stuck in an endless loop.
>

Ah, yes. The loop was somewhere into glibc. So I'm not sure if it is
possible to see the kernel assembly with it (it seems highly not probable).

I guess that you still need GDB and friends for that.

Regards,

Fabio

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