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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New module loader makes kernel debugging much harder
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:34:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021124013451.GB58002@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25797.1038100726@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:18:46PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> How do you know if the sections are "simply mapped"?  The module loader
> could assign different sections to different mappings, there is no
> guarantee that they are contiguous.  They were contiguous using the 2.4
> module loader but only because the syscall only allowed for a single
> area.  The new loader can assign sections anywhere it likes.

Mmmm, good point. So I will need full section info too. And some
userspace changes to cope with such ...

thanks
john
-- 
Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person,
the thread is over.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-24  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-23  2:20 Keith Owens
2002-11-23  2:35 ` John Levon
2002-11-23  2:43   ` Keith Owens
2002-11-23 16:23     ` John Levon
2002-11-24  0:49       ` Keith Owens
2002-11-24  1:06         ` John Levon
2002-11-24  1:18           ` Keith Owens
2002-11-24  1:34             ` John Levon [this message]
2002-11-25  1:26             ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-23  4:22 ` Jamie Lokier

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