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A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers.

Operating systems and operating system kernels that contain a kernel debugger:

The Windows NT family
BeOS
DragonFly BSD
Linux kernel; No kernel debugger was included in the mainline Linux tree prior to version 2.6.26-rc1 because Linus Torvalds didn't want a kernel debugger in the kernel.^[1]^[2]
- KDB (local)^[3]
- KGDB (remote)
- MDB (local/remote)

References

^ "LWN.net". Retrieved 2008-05-29.
^ 3rd may 2008 : Message from Linus Torvalds for the 2.6.26-rc1 kernel merge
^ Nellitheertha, Hariprasad. "Inside the Linux kernel debugger". Retrieved 2008-05-29.

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