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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions Documentation/teaching/labs/introduction.rst
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Expand Up @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The objectives of the laboratory are:

* deepening the notions presented in the course
* presentation of kernel programming interfaces (kernel API)
* gaining documenting, development and debugging skills on a freestanding
* gaining documentation, development and debugging skills on a freestanding
environment
* acquiring knowledge and skills for drivers development

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For a simpler interface, `Kscope <http://sourceforge.net/projects/kscope/>`__
is a cscope frontend which uses QT. It is lightweight, very fast and very
easy to use. It allows searching using regular expressions, call graphs, etc.
Kscope is no longer mantained.
Kscope is no longer maintained.

There is also a `port <https///opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Kscope4?content=156987>`__
of version 1.6 for Qt4 and KDE 4 which keeps the integration of the text
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`Apache HTTP Server <http://apache.wirebrain.de/lxr/>`__ and
`FreeBSD <http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source>`__.

There are a number of sites that use LXR for cross-referencing the
There are a number of sites that use LXR for cross-referencing
the sources of the Linux kernel, the main site being `the original site of
development <http://lxr.linux.no/linux/>`__ which does not work anymore. You can
use `https://elixir.bootlin.com/ <https://elixir.bootlin.com/>`__.
Expand All @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ provided by the Clang compiler to index the code.

The main difference between cscope and SourceWeb is the fact that SourceWeb
is, in a way, a compiler pass. SourceWeb doesn't index all the code, but
only the code that was efectively compiled by the compiler. This way, some
only the code that was effectively compiled by the compiler. This way, some
problems are eliminated, such as ambiguities about which variant of a function
defined in multiple places is used. This also means that the indexing takes
more time, because the compiled files must pass one more time through
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library to :code:`LD_PRELOAD`. This way, the library is loaded by
every process started by :code:`make` (basically, the compiler),
registers the commands used to start the processes and generates
a filed called :file:`btrace.log`. This file is then used by
a file called :file:`btrace.log`. This file is then used by
:code:`sw-btrace-to-compile-db` which converts it to a format defined
by clang: `JSON Compilation Database <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html>`__.
This JSON Compilation Database resulted from the above steps is then
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.. code-block:: bash

student@eg106$ cd ~/src/linux
stduent@eg106$ gdb --quiet vmlinux
student@eg106$ gdb --quiet vmlinux
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) x/x 0xc02e535c
0xc02e535c `<sys_call_table>`: 0xc011bc58
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the open development system. Because of this, the Internet offers a
larger number of documentation for the kernel.

A few links related to the Linux kernel are shown bellow:
A few links related to the Linux kernel are shown below:

- `KernelNewbies <http://kernelnewbies.org>`__
- `KernelNewbies - Kernel Hacking <http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHacking>`__
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:ref:`vm_link`.

.. important::
Before solving an exercice, **carefully** read all its bullets.
Before solving an exercise, **carefully** read all its bullets.

..
_[SECTION-EXERCISES-REMARKS-END]
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