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docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
authorZhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:51:45 +0000 (16:51 +0800)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:49:01 +0000 (14:49 -0600)
commit4b572d299ea0fdc82b41c04b710cab3f29236bb3
treec481484c5793fd6936f823054e3bb68e4795b51dtree | snapshot
parentbd446bb0cfc763f0d535e4aa70a5199665044c6bcommit | diff
docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

commit 4325f4cd56a4 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst diff | blob | history
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