Commit 6b219431 authored by Jakob Koschel's avatar Jakob Koschel Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/scripts/gdb: add necessary make scripts_gdb step

In order to debug the kernel successfully with gdb you need to run
'make scripts_gdb' nowadays.

This was changed with the following commit:

Commit 67274c08 ("scripts/gdb: delay generation of gdb
constants.py")

In order to have a complete guide for beginners this remark
should be added to the offial documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112-documentation-gdb-v2-1-292785c43dc9@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 835205f6
......@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ Setup
this mode. In this case, you should build the kernel with
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE disabled if the architecture supports KASLR.
- Build the gdb scripts (required on kernels v5.1 and above)::
make scripts_gdb
- Enable the gdb stub of QEMU/KVM, either
- at VM startup time by appending "-s" to the QEMU command line
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