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It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.
The kernel's "dynamic debugging" interface saw some minor changes for 2.6.39. As it happens, LWN has never written about how dynamic debug works, so this seems like an opportune time to fill in the ...