When debugging Linux Kernel running in QEMU with GDB it's not possible to access the Kernel function located in .text.init. Example:
(gdb) disas start_kernel Dump of assembler code for function start_kernel: 0xffffffff83160ff3 <+0>: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff83160ff3 Removing --enable-kvm -cpu host from the QEMU command line makes it works as expected: (gdb) disas start_kernel Dump of assembler code for function start_kernel: => 0xffffffff83160ff3 <+0>: call 0xffffffff810788c0 <__fentry__> 0xffffffff83160ff8 <+5>: push rbp 0xffffffff83160ff9 <+6>: mov rdi,0xffffffff82e1a9c0 0xffffffff83161000 <+13>: mov rbp,rsp Is it possible to make --enable-kvm -cpu host to be able to access memory located in the .init.text section? If some fixes are needed I'll be more than happy to help.