Re: How to find out which part of code is changing a particular data structure.

Chetan Nanda <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Nov 2013 09:01:56 +0530

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You may attach debugger (like Lauterbach) and use its data breakpoint
functionality.

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Rajat Jain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a memory location (One of the fields in a kernel data structure)
> and I want to track down the code that changes the value of that particular
> location. Some thing like a "watchpoint".
>
> And this is early while I am still booting up. Can some one tell me if it
> is possible to do so?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rajat
>
>
>
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