A kernel debugger in Python: drgn

Posted May 29, 2019 22:16 UTC (Wed) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
Parent article: A kernel debugger in Python: drgn

I am curious if epython/pykdump was mentioned? It’s a freely available python extension for crash that works quite well and allows much of what he’s describing. I wonder what Sandoval feels the advantages are of drgn... it sounds quite similar.

https://sourceforge.net/p/pykdump/wiki/Home/

A kernel debugger in Python: drgn

Posted May 30, 2019 20:27 UTC (Thu) by osandov (subscriber, #97963) [Link] (1 responses)

I wasn't aware of pykdump (and I couldn't get it to run despite my best efforts). It does look similar. As Jeff commented below, he's also been working on another similar tool, crash-python. Clearly, there's a need for this sort of thing and we haven't done a great job of publicizing our efforts, which is part of the reason I presented it at LSF/MM.