Re: New module loader makes kernel debugging much harder

From: John Levon (levon@movementarian.org)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 20:34:51 EST

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:18:46PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> How do you know if the sections are "simply mapped"? The module loader
> could assign different sections to different mappings, there is no
> guarantee that they are contiguous. They were contiguous using the 2.4
> module loader but only because the syscall only allowed for a single
> area. The new loader can assign sections anywhere it likes.

Mmmm, good point. So I will need full section info too. And some
userspace changes to cope with such ...

thanks
john

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