Real Linux Kernel Debugging in a Virtualized Environment

Stefan Reimbold (<email address hidden>)

Linux in a virtualized environment opens a whole world of new options to
debug kernel problems. Running as a guest under z/VM you can look into the
memory of a live running kernel and control the execution instruction by
instruction.
This presentation will show you what insights you can get if you take a
deep dive look into the Linux kernel from a z/VM on a IBM System z.
The target audience are kernel or driver developers who want to debug the
interface of their code and the System z hardware or firmware.

BIO:
Stefan Reimbold works as development engineer at the IBM Reserach &
Development lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He has 15 years of experience in
the UNIX field and has been working for IBM for more than 10 years. He
holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg and is
experienced lecturer at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State
University. His areas of expertise include System z Firmware, Linux on
System z, Networking, AIX and AFS.