[ovs-discuss] Debugging OVS

[Lori Jakab]

On 12/1/16 8:44 AM, Ajeeth Kannan (RIT Student) wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I find it difficult to debug OVS files without any debuggers. Would
> you suggest me to use GDB or is there any specific techniques to debug
> the problem ?
>

GDB is quite good for debugging the user space part.

> As both user space and kernel space modules in OVS run as daemon
> process will I be able to debug it using GDB ?
>

You won't be able to debug the kernel module code with GDB. Kernel
debugging is not trivial.

-Lori

> Thank you,
> Ajeeth Kannan
>