我們在編寫linux內核代碼的時候，難免會遇到oops的問題，類似空指針crash，在crash的時候，會打印一些當時的棧信息，我們可以通過這些信息結合vmlinux來調試具體在哪個函數上出現了問題。Vmlinux是一個內核符號表，編譯進內核的函數列表之類的都可以從里面提取出來。

在內核的.config里面要打開 DEBUG_INFO和DEBUG_VM

[email protected]:~/weiqifa/tm100$ ./prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.7/bin/arm-eabi-gdb ./out/target/product/tm100/obj/KERNEL_OBJ/vmlinux

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Reading symbols from /home/weiqifa/weiqifa/tm100/out/target/product/tm100/obj/KERNEL_OBJ/vmlinux...done.

(gdb) 

定位故障代碼

(gdb) l * qrd7627a_add_io_devices+0x100

0xc07cd05c is in qrd7627a_add_io_devices (/home/kernel/arch/arm/mach-msm/msm8x25/goso-msm7627a-io.c:1851).

1846            } else if (machine_is_msm8625q_skud() || machine_is_msm8625q_evbd()) {

1847        #ifndef CONFIG_CALA02

1848                    platform_device_register(&pmic_mpp_leds_pdev_skud);

1849        #endif

1850                    /* enable the skud flash and torch by gpio leds driver */

1851                    platform_device_register(&gpio_flash_skud);

1852            } else if (machine_is_msm8625q_skue()) {

1853                     /* enable the skue flashlight by gpio leds driver */

1854                    platform_device_register(&gpio_flash_skue);