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53 Lessons
15h
Certificate of Completion
TBA
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Course Overview
It’s essential to examine core dumps to diagnose any non-trivial hangs or crashes due to a user process or the kernel faults. Most people have no training in dealing with core dumps, so the causes of most crashes remain undiagnosed. This course starts with debugging core dumps. You will learn how to debug the Linux process and kernel failures (using the GDB debugger and the crash utility), browse core memory dumps, identify corruption, memory leaks, CPU spikes, halted threads, deadlocks and wait chains, am...Show More
TAKEAWAY SKILLS
Debugging
Bash
What You'll Learn
A working knowledge of how to collect core dumps
A hands-on knowledge on how to diagnose crashes/hangs via core dump analysis
The ability to apply pattern-oriented analysis on 64-bit core dumps on x86 architecture
A familiarity with debugging to diagnose common faults
The ability to use GDB debugger to analyze Linux process core dump
An understanding of using the crash utility to analyze Linux kernel core dumps
Course Content
Getting Started
Fundamentals of Core Dump Analysis
Using GDB With Multi-Threaded Applications
Null Pointer Patterns and External Debugging Information
Spiking Threads
Heap Corruption
3 Lessons
Stack Corruption and Overflow
4 Lessons
Active Threads
3 Lessons
Runtime Exceptions and Execution Residues
3 Lessons
Heap Errors
4 Lessons
Deadlocks
2 Lessons
Post-processing
2 Lessons
Kernel Dump Analysis with Crash
7 Lessons
Wrapping Up
2 Lessons
Appendix
2 Lessons
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