On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:54, sam shepperd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kindly thanks - that helps. However the virtual address of the kernel > > symbol I am looking up in memory is not within current->mm. > I see. I think i know what you mean . Your symbol is in kernel address space. I think the mm_struct object you are looking for is init_mm . If so, in the above code I wrote, use pgd_offset_k(addr) instead of pgd_offset(mm, addr). I think that is what you are looking for. Correct me if I misunderstood you. Venkatram Tummala > > Are you sure? Theoritically, kernel address space is mapped throughout > all the task structure (e.g current->mm etc) > > After all, if it's a symbol address you're looking for, have you tried > http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.34/+code=kallsyms_lookup_name and see > if it suits you? > > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com >
