On Thursday, March 12 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >> gdb will still need changes, though, right? > > This is up to gdb developers. To me, it should simply skip this > VM_DONTDUMP vma.
If I understood this discussion correctly (and thanks Andy and Oleg for, *ahem*, dumping all this useful information for us!), GDB will not need modifications in the Linux kernel in this area. In fact, my patch already implements the "ignore VM_DONTDUMP mappings" part, so we're pretty much covered. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 0x65FC5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
