How to get contents of Binder transaction buffer for troubleshooting

Question

Is there a way, either programmatically or through a debugging tool, to know the current transactions held in the Binder transaction buffer?

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Answer 1

As found in slide 67 of http://www.slideshare.net/jserv/android-ipc-mechanism, detailed information about the Binder transaction buffer can be found through debugfs. After mounting it with

mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

the Binder info can be reached in /sys/kernel/debug/binder/, where one can get global as well as per-process information.