When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

When it comes to debugging hard-to-diagnose software and operating-system problems, there is no set recipe. Rather debugging is all about “having the right tools and knowing how to use them,” advised ...

Microsoft has launched a new open-source project that aims to add to Windows the benefits of eBPF, a technology first implemented in Linux that allows attaching programs in both kernel and user ...

Kprobes is a mechanism used to register breakpoints and corresponding handlers. After enabling Kprobes support in the kernel, we can debug any instruction at any kernel address. This article explains ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

NotMyFault from Microsoft can be used to crash, hang, and cause kernel memory leaks on your Windows 11/10 system. This can help you identify and diagnose device driver and hardware problems, and you ...

When it comes to debugging hard-to-diagnose software and operating-system problems, there is no set recipe. Rather debugging is all about “having the right tools and knowing how to use them,” advised ...