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Documentation: English fixes in kgdb/kdb article

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Minor grammar and typos fixed in the kgdb/kdb article

Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241018223536.GA799515@lichtman.org
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@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ supports it for the architecture you are using, you can use hardware
breakpoints if you desire to run with the ``CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX``
option turned on, else you need to turn off this option.
Next you should choose one of more I/O drivers to interconnect debugging
Next you should choose one or more I/O drivers to interconnect the debugging
host and debugged target. Early boot debugging requires a KGDB I/O
driver that supports early debugging and the driver must be built into
the kernel directly. Kgdb I/O driver configuration takes place via
kernel or module parameters which you can learn more about in the in the
kernel or module parameters which you can learn more about in the
section that describes the parameter kgdboc.
Here is an example set of ``.config`` symbols to enable or disable for kgdb::
@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ Using loadable module or built-in
Configure kgdboc at runtime with sysfs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
At run time you can enable or disable kgdboc by echoing a parameters
into the sysfs. Here are two examples:
At run time you can enable or disable kgdboc by writing parameters
into sysfs. Here are two examples:
1. Enable kgdboc on ttyS0::
@ -374,10 +374,10 @@ default behavior is always set to 0.
Kernel parameter: ``nokaslr``
-----------------------------
If the architecture that you are using enable KASLR by default,
If the architecture that you are using enables KASLR by default,
you should consider turning it off. KASLR randomizes the
virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuse
gdb which resolve kernel symbol address from symbol table
virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuses
gdb which resolves addresses of kernel symbols from the symbol table
of vmlinux.
Using kdb
@ -631,8 +631,6 @@ automatically changes into kgdb mode.
kgdb
Now disconnect your terminal program and connect gdb in its place
2. At the kdb prompt, disconnect the terminal program and connect gdb in
its place.
@ -749,7 +747,7 @@ The kernel debugger is organized into a number of components:
helper functions in some of the other kernel components to make it
possible for kdb to examine and report information about the kernel
without taking locks that could cause a kernel deadlock. The kdb core
contains implements the following functionality.
implements the following functionality.
- A simple shell