kgdb / kdb /debug_core · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
• M Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
• R Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst
• F drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
• F drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
• F include/linux/kdb.h
• F include/linux/kgdb.h
• F kernel/debug/
• F kernel/module/kdb.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-25

Recent patches

Most-recent 13 patches in this subsystem on linux-doc, ordered by date desc.

• COLD21d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 1/2] tracing: Move non-trace_printk prototypes into trace_controls.h
  2026-06-25 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH] docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
  2026-06-20 · Zenghui Yu <hidden>
• COLD52d [PATCH v1] docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
  2026-05-31 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH] doc: kgdb: Add description about rodata=off kernel parameter
  2026-01-16 · junan <hidden>
• STALE234d [PATCH 5/5] fbcon: Remove fb_debug_enter/_leave from struct fb_ops
  2025-11-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE582d LANDED: 24 (24M) [PATCH v3] Documentation: move dev-tools debugging files to process/debugging/
  2024-12-10 · Randy Dunlap <hidden>
• STALE594d [PATCH v2] Documentation: move dev-tools debugging files to process/debugging/
  2024-12-06 · Randy Dunlap <hidden>
• STALE592d [PATCH] Documentation: move dev-tools debugging files to process/debugging/
  2024-12-04 · Randy Dunlap <hidden>
• STALE1893d LANDED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 2/4] kdb: Switch to use %ptTs
  2021-05-11 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1899d [PATCH v1 2/4] kdb: Switch to use %ptTs
  2021-05-10 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1995d LANDED [PATCH] kgdb: rectify kernel-doc for kgdb_unregister_io_module()
  2021-01-26 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE2145d LANDED [PATCH v2 09/11] kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone()
  2020-08-19 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2164d [PATCH 09/11] kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone()
  2020-08-18 · Christian Brauner <hidden>