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From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, kieran@ksquared.org.uk,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbingham@kernel.org
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
Date: Fri,  7 Jul 2017 16:51:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499417505-31574-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> (raw)

commit 6807c84652b0 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel 
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging. 

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
index 5e93c9b..60fec6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
@@ -31,12 +31,13 @@ Setup
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED off. If your architecture supports
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, keep it enabled.
 
-- Install that kernel on the guest.
+- Install that kernel on the guest, turn off KASLR if necessary by adding
+  "nokaslr" to the kernel command line.
   Alternatively, QEMU allows to boot the kernel directly using -kernel,
   -append, -initrd command line switches. This is generally only useful if
   you do not depend on modules. See QEMU documentation for more details on
-  this mode.
+  this mode. In this case, you should build the kernel with
+  CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE disabled if the architecture supports KASLR.
 
 - Enable the gdb stub of QEMU/KVM, either
 
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-07  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-07  8:51 Zhouyi Zhou [this message]
2017-07-13  6:53 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-07-13 18:51   ` Jonathan Corbet

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