diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/lldb-kmod.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/lldb-kmod.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/lldb-kmod.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== LLDB Kernel Module Imporvement + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/LLDBKernelModuleImprovement[GSoC Wiki Project] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/LLDBKernelModuleImprovement[] + +link:https://github.com/aokblast/freebsd-src/tree/lldb_dynamicloader_freebsd_kernel[Project Codebase] URL: link:https://github.com/aokblast/freebsd-src/tree/lldb_dynamicloader_freebsd_kernel[] + +Contact: Sheng-Yi Hong + +FreeBSD project uses LLVM as it's toolchain. +The LLVM project has bundled with a debugger called LLDB. +In LLDB, the userspace debugging facilities has been well implemented. +However, in the kernel space, there are still some works have to be done. +One of the work is the kernel module debug facility for LLDB - that is, prase the loaded module data provided by the kernel core dump and loading the module objects. +The goal is to implement such plugin for LLDB, and this is an ongoing GSoC Project for now. + +https://github.com/aokblast/freebsd-src/tree/lldb_dynamicloader_freebsd_kernel[Project Codebase] is the whole code of my work. + +Currently, this is still a work in progress and I am still debugging on it. + +Sponsor: The Google Summer of Code '23 program