kgdb_register_io_module(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ kgdb_register_io_module(9) ✨

okay so literally welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie πŸŽ€ this one's a tiny lil page but it's kind of a big deal if you're out here building debugger I/O backends, iykyk πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

kgdb_register_io_module β€” registering a KGDB IO module, that's the whole vibe πŸ¦‹


⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

int kgdb_register_io_module (struct kgdb_io *new_dbg_io_ops );

like yes that's the entire signature, she's compact, she's iconic πŸ‘‘


🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • new_dbg_io_ops β€” the io ops vector πŸ’– that's it, that's the argument. it's a struct kgdb_io * and it's carrying your whole ops vector, no cap.

πŸ”₯ DESCRIPTION πŸ”₯

Register it with the KGDB core. periodt ✨ that's genuinely the full description, the manpage is not gonna elaborate, she said what she said πŸ’€

so like, you hand over your new_dbg_io_ops and the KGDB core now knows about it. main character energy for your IO module 🫢


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Kernel file ./kernel/debug/debug_core.c β€” go read the source, bestie, it's all in there πŸ“–
  • kgdb_unregister_io_module(9) β€” the breakup arc πŸ’”
  • kgdb_breakpoint(9) β€” the other one you'll wanna know about ⭐

ngl the "register it with the KGDB core" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here β€” this page is short, so don't go inventing extra behaviour for it, fr fr πŸ™ˆ

and that's the whole page, cutie πŸŽ€ this one came from ./kernel/debug, dated October 2026, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual β€” mwah, go register something πŸ’œβœ¨

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