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@@ -262,8 +262,6 @@ Compiling the kernel
- Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available.
For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`.
- Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel.
-
- Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also
possible to do ``make install`` if you have lilo installed to suit the
kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
@@ -332,85 +330,10 @@ Compiling the kernel
If something goes wrong
-----------------------
- - If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please check
- the file MAINTAINERS to see if there is a particular person associated
- with the part of the kernel that you are having trouble with. If there
- isn't anyone listed there, then the second best thing is to mail
- them to me (torvalds@linux-foundation.org), and possibly to any other
- relevant mailing-list or to the newsgroup.
-
- - In all bug-reports, *please* tell what kernel you are talking about,
- how to duplicate the problem, and what your setup is (use your common
- sense). If the problem is new, tell me so, and if the problem is
- old, please try to tell me when you first noticed it.
-
- - If the bug results in a message like::
-
- unable to handle kernel paging request at address C0000010
- Oops: 0002
- EIP: 0010:XXXXXXXX
- eax: xxxxxxxx ebx: xxxxxxxx ecx: xxxxxxxx edx: xxxxxxxx
- esi: xxxxxxxx edi: xxxxxxxx ebp: xxxxxxxx
- ds: xxxx es: xxxx fs: xxxx gs: xxxx
- Pid: xx, process nr: xx
- xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
-
- or similar kernel debugging information on your screen or in your
- system log, please duplicate it *exactly*. The dump may look
- incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may
- help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also
- important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in
- the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information
- on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst
-
- - If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
- as is, otherwise you will have to use the ``ksymoops`` program to make
- sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred).
- This utility can be downloaded from
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .
- Alternatively, you can do the dump lookup by hand:
-
- - In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
- look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help
- me or anybody else very much: it will depend on your particular
- kernel setup. What you should do is take the hex value from the EIP
- line (ignore the ``0010:``), and look it up in the kernel namelist to
- see which kernel function contains the offending address.
-
- To find out the kernel function name, you'll need to find the system
- binary associated with the kernel that exhibited the symptom. This is
- the file 'linux/vmlinux'. To extract the namelist and match it against
- the EIP from the kernel crash, do::
-
- nm vmlinux | sort | less
-
- This will give you a list of kernel addresses sorted in ascending
- order, from which it is simple to find the function that contains the
- offending address. Note that the address given by the kernel
- debugging messages will not necessarily match exactly with the
- function addresses (in fact, that is very unlikely), so you can't
- just 'grep' the list: the list will, however, give you the starting
- point of each kernel function, so by looking for the function that
- has a starting address lower than the one you are searching for but
- is followed by a function with a higher address you will find the one
- you want. In fact, it may be a good idea to include a bit of
- "context" in your problem report, giving a few lines around the
- interesting one.
-
- If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled
- kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as
- possible will help. Please read
- 'Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst' for details.
-
- - Alternatively, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you
- cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the
- kernel with -g; edit arch/x86/Makefile appropriately, then do a ``make
- clean``. You'll also need to enable CONFIG_PROC_FS (via ``make config``).
-
- After you've rebooted with the new kernel, do ``gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore``.
- You can now use all the usual gdb commands. The command to look up the
- point where your system crashed is ``l *0xXXXXXXXX``. (Replace the XXXes
- with the EIP value.)
-
- gdb'ing a non-running kernel currently fails because ``gdb`` (wrongly)
- disregards the starting offset for which the kernel is compiled.
+If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please follow the
+instructions at 'Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst'.
+
+Hints on understanding kernel bug reports are in
+'Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst'. More on debugging the kernel
+with gdb is in 'Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst' and
+'Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst'.