Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 11

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in June 2017 - November 2018.

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Compared to the volume 10, the volume 11 features:

8 new crash dump analysis patterns with selected downloadable example memory dumps
15 new software trace and log analysis patterns
Introduction to diagnostic operads
Summary of mathematical concepts in software diagnostics and software data analysis
Introduction to software diagnostics engineering
Introduction to narrachain
Introduction to diagnostics-driven development
Principles of integral diamathics
Introduction to meso-problem solving using meso-patterns
Introduction to Lego log analysis
Introduction to artificial chemistry approach to software trace and log analysis
WinDbg notes
Updated C++17 source code of some previously published tools
Selected entries from the debugging dictionary
List of recommended modern C++ books
List of recommended books about algorithms
Author's current CV
Author's past resume written in WinDbg and GDB style

This volume also includes articles from the former Crash Dump Analysis blog not previously available in print form.

The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, technical support, escalation, and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.

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Dmitry Vostokov

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

Preface 9

About the Author 11

PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 13

System Call 13

Data Correlation (CPU Times) 15

Stack Trace Race 17

Hyperdump 19

Disassembly Ambiguity 24

Hidden Exception (Managed Space) 25

Insufficient Memory (Stack) 28

Exception Reporting Thread 34

PART 2: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 35

Ultrasimilar Messages 35

Hedges 37

Trace Field 39

Script Messages 41

Working Set 42

Trace Homotopy 44

Signal 45

Renormalization 47

Motivic Trace 48

Significant Interval 50

Random Data 52

Truncated Data 53

Time Scale 55

Trace Sharding 56

Phantom Activity 57

PART 3: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 59

The Most Important Skill in Software Diagnostics 59

Pattern-Oriented Data Analysis Example 61

Diagnostic Operads 63

Mathematical Concepts in Software Diagnostics and Software Data Analysis 66

Software Diagnostics Engineering 69

Narrachain 71

Diagnostics-Driven Development 74

Integral Diamathics – Tracing the Road to Root Cause 75

Anolog.io 77

Meso-problem Solving using Meso-patterns 79

Lego Log Analysis 82

Artificial Chemistry Approach to Software Trace and Log Analysis 87

PART 4: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces 93

Debugging Slang 93

QUICK 93

DREAM 93

DOSE 93

Fex 93

DANCE 94

CORPSE 94

Hi 94

SOS 94

GUT 94

Autopsy 95

FILOsophy and FILOlogy 95

Timesheets and Timeshits 95

Software Logomancy 95

RhaPSODy 95

Developer 96

Diagnostics and Debugging in Science Fiction 97

Russian-English Lexical Connection 98

Defects in Logs 98

A Space Makes a Difference 98

Digital Transformation 98

Pathology 98

Freemallocers 99

Double Layoff 99

Dump in Morse Code 99

Pushkin and Updates 99

Law of Misprints 99

SoftwareLog, MaintainLog, MountainLog. 100

Cloud Patches 101

Puree Windows Cooking 102

An Edible CPU Chip 102

Trying on a Sherlock’s Hat 103

The Reality is a Matrix 105

Problem Solving Exercises 106

Counting to 10 107

Music for Debugging 107

A Bug Climbs a Book 108

A Computer Crash 109

Traces on Roads 110

Lego Dump Analysis 112

PART 5: Art and Photography 113

Cyberspace Diagnostics 113

Chasing a Beautiful Bug 114

Diagnostics and Poetry 116

Diagnostics in a Wild 117

Interview Preparation Deque 118

Practicing Sorting Algorithms 119

The Open/Closed Principle 120

Microsoft Campus in Redmond 121

Soviet Glasses and Apple Hardware 123

Design/Testing Proportion 124

PART 6: Debugging Dictionary 125

7 125

8 128

Breakpoint 131

Crash 133

Hang 134

Kernel Space 135

Memory Dump 137

Memory Space 138

Physical Memory 139

Thread 140

User Space 141

Virtual Memory 143

PART 7: Tools 145

Dump2Picture Version 2.0 145

Window2Dump 149

WindowHistory 150

WindowHistory Mobile 155

MessageHistory 159

ScreenHistory 161

ProcessHistory 164

Using SSSL Principle to Design Support Tools 165

Repair Clipboard Chain 166

The Inception of Debugging Studio 168

Easter Egg 169

PART 8: Miscellaneous 171

Selected Crashes from My Computers 171

WinDbg Notes 211

Resume and CV as Memory Analysis Artifacts and General Traces 219

Quotes 220

My Road to Modern C++ 222

Algorithms for Breakfast 225

Applying API Wrapper Pattern 229

Clipboard Issues Explained 233

Inside Citrix - November 2006 238

Looking at Software Problems from a Different Angle 243

Me and "Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference" 244

Appendix 245

Curriculum Vitae 245

Resume in WinDbg Style 254

Resume in GDB Style 256

Windows Internals Certificate 258

Dump2Picture 2.2.3 Source Code 259

Dump2Wave 1.3.3 Source Code 262

Window2Dump 1.0 Source Code 265

Index of WinDbg Commands 273

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