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Towards a debuggable kernel design

Operating Systems 2023-10-10 v1

Abstract

This paper describes what it means for a kernel to be debuggable and proposes a kernel design with debuggability in mind. We evaluate the proposed kernel design by comparing the iterations required in cyclic debugging for different classes of bugs in a vanilla monolithic kernel to a variant enhanced with our design rules for debuggability. We discuss the trade offs involved in designing a debuggable kernel.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.05399,
  title  = {Towards a debuggable kernel design},
  author = {Chandrika Parimoo and Ashish Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05399},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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