Article 4G4D3 [$] A kernel debugger in Python: drgn

[$] A kernel debugger in Python: drgn

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A kernel debugger that allows Python scripts to access data structures ina running kernel was the topic of Omar Sandoval's plenary session at the2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM). Inhis day job at Facebook, Sandoval does a fair amount of kernel debuggingand he found the existing tools to be lacking. That led him to build drgn, which is a debugger builtinto a Python library.

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