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Section outline

  • Module 7: Debugging Synchronization Issues

    • Diagnosing deadlocks and race conditions.
    • Tools and techniques for synchronization debugging.

    Hands-on Lab: Identifying and fixing race conditions.

    Module 8: Memory Management Debugging

    • Memory leaks and corruption analysis.
    • Tools: kmemleak and slub_debug.

    Hands-on Lab: Debugging memory leaks with kmemleak.

    Module 9: Debugging I/O Subsystems

    • Troubleshooting I/O performance issues.
    • Tools: blktrace, iostat, iotop.

    Hands-on Lab: Diagnosing I/O issues in the Linux kernel.

    Module 10: Case Study and Wrap-Up

    • Real-world kernel debugging case studies.
    • Group exercise: Solving complex kernel bugs.
    • Final Q&A and best practices discussion.