Debugging
This page is the starting point for everything that relates to debugging. The intend is to collect everything we need to remember or need to know in a single place to make sure that support for debugging processes as well as kernels becomes well-supported and bug-free in the future.
Main Topics
External Resources
BSDCan 2008: Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel by JohnBaldwin
Kernel debugging class (Slides & Tutorial) by Greg Lehey (2006)
FOSDEM 2010: Debugging the FreeBSD kernel for dummies by ShteryanaShopova
Profiling and Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel (2009) by Ray Kinsella (Intel® Software)
Alternative Debuggers
LLDB is a debugger based on LLVM and CLANG under a "BSD-style" license.
Pathscale's PathDB was ported to FreeBSD and it's available on github
The Solaris Modular Debugger MDB would be an interesting port due to its Dtrace support.