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Linux Kernel Debugging - Techniques and Usecases

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Frank Hofmann, IT Professional

Date/Time: Nov 07 11:00:00

Location: CSA Auditorium, (Room No. 104, Ground Floor)

Abstract:
Operating System Kernels are amongst the most complex pieces of software in existence, and the Linux kernel is no exception. Compared with application software, kernel code is long-running, very heavily multithreaded, uses different forms of

Speaker Bio:
Frank Hofmann is an IT Professional who worked with different operating system kernels (Linux, *BSD, SymbianOS, Solaris) for over 30 years. Holding a MSc. in Physics, he always worked on low-level code. He has given company-internal training and tuition about kernel-level debugging, crash- and coredump analysis, reverse engineering and IT forensics to kernel developers, SREs and security analysts. He has a keen interest in debugging techniques and tools.

Host Faculty: Prof. Vinod Ganapathy