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SubjectRe: /proc/kcore - how to fix it
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:51:43PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > One alternative I considered was to use just do a page table lookup.
> > But I fear that some architectures use direct mapping registers etc.
> > with mappings not in the page tables for the direct mapping, so it
> > probably won't work for everybody.
>
> You are right. IA64 maps the kernel with some locked registers, so
> there are no pagetables to show that the mapping exists.

ARM maps the kernel direct-mapped RAM using 1MB section mappings, which
the normal pgd/pmd/pte macros don't recognise as being valid.

> I don't know ... you'll have to dust off those fixes for /proc to let
> the negative file offsets get as far as the kcore.c code so we can
> see what utilities work. In practice we probably don't care about
> anything other than gdb.

gdb definitely breaks - that's why I had to do the changes in the first
place. gdb tries to lseek to negative 64-bit file offsets, which the
kernel rejects with EINVAL iirc. (Tried it earlier this week.)

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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