On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:50:28PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > From: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > o With relocatable kernel in picture, the kernel text map offset > (__START_KERNEL_map) is no longer constant. It depends on where kernel > is loaded. > > o Now /proc/kcore is read to determine the virtual address the kernel > is mapped at and /porc/iomem is read for determining the physical > address where kernel is loaded at. This information is enough to > create to fill virtual address and phy addr info for elf header > mapping kernel text and data. > > o Virtual address for kernel text are needed by gdb as well as crash to > retrieve the meaningful data from core file. > > o This patch requires "elf note memsz" fix in the kernel. Currently > that fix is in -mm tree. It will still work with older kernels. It will > display the warning messages (/proc/kcore could not be parsed) and hardcode > the kernel virtual address and size. > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Other than one or two spurious blank lines, that seems fine to me. I'm comfortable with committing this to kexec-tools-testing if you are. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
