Inside Windows® Debugging

Appendix B. WinDbg Kernel-Mode Debugging Quick Start

This appendix presents an overview of the most common kernel-mode debugging tasks and how to accomplish them using the WinDbg debugger. Like Appendix A, which was a user-mode debugging reference, this appendix isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of all the kernel-mode debugger commands. Instead, it is written as a short summary you can use for jump-starting your kernel-mode debugging experiments without the complex details.

All the user-mode debugger commands from the previous appendix also work in the kernel-mode debugger, so you can apply them in exactly the same way, though the ~ and lm commands have different semantics when used during kernel debugging. There are also new commands that work ...