From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] i386 relocable kernel breakes /proc/kcore debugging
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:41:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070730084116.GA18263@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070730080303.GA6071@in.ibm.com>
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:03:03 +0200, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:43:43AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
...
> > gdb 'thinks' that all kernel symbols are below 0x80000000 , while they are at
> > 0xC000....
> >
> > Turning CONFIG_RELOCATABLE off fixes that, so I assume that is the reason for
> > that.
>
> This is a gdb issue. I had raised it in gdb mailing list some time back.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-08/msg00137.html
There was the patch post:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2006-08/msg00182.html
> What version of gdb you are using? I know it got fixed for gdb shipped
> with RHEL5. I am not sure about what upstream version of gdb it got fixed
> in.
It did not make it to the upstream as the patch above is an imperfect one.
It is fixed in RH gdb-6.5-5 upwards, therefore Fedora 6 + RHEL-5.
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/gdb/gdb-6.5-bz203661-emit-relocs.patch?root=core
Regards,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-30 8:51 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-28 1:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-07-30 8:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-07-30 8:41 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2007-07-30 9:32 ` Maxim Levitsky
2007-07-30 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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