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DateFri, 11 Aug 2000 14:12:00 +0530
From"Amit S. Kale" <>
SubjectRe: Module mapping to mem/kmem?
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 )

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