Chapter 1: A General Introduction to Debugging Software

Hello there! Welcome on this journey of learning how to go about debugging a really sophisticated, large, and complex piece of software that's proven absolutely critical to big businesses as well as tiny embedded systems and everything in between – the Linux kernel.

Let's begin this very first chapter, and our journey of kernel debugging, by first understanding a little more about what a bug really is, and the origins and myths of the term debugging. Next, a glimpse at some actual real-world software bugs will (hopefully) provide the required inspiration and motivation (to firstly avoid bugs and then to find and fix bugs, of course). You will be guided on how to set up an appropriate workspace ...

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