fedora rawhide problems with kprobes/debuginfo addresses

Vivek Goyal vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Mon Mar 5 07:17:00 GMT 2007


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:34:49PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Ok, so you are talking about using magic arch knowledge to know what
> virtual address range might include the kernel mapping and finding a memory
> region there.  That is worse than the kallsyms heuristic I'm doing, for
> purposes of making things reasonable in userland.

I understand that using /proc/kallsyms is much easier but it does not work
if somebody built a custom kernel without kallsyms support.

Thanks
Vivek



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