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Dave Cecil wrote: > > Firstly, please forgive me if the questions I ask are ignorant. I'm on a > steep learning curve at present. > > I want to display the value of a variable in my loadable module, but of > course gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore can't do that. > > I believe that I should be able to get at that value via /dev/mem or > /dev/kmem, given that I know the address of the variable. You can use /dev/kmem with virtual address of a symbol. /dev/kmem can be used to read any *valid* virtual address. (/dev/kmem can be used to write to kernel data but not module data) -- Amit Kale Veritas Software ( http://www.veritas.com ) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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