Re: [PATCH?] Crash in 2.4.17/ptrace

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:42:25 -0800

Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> For your testing purposes you
> could just remove the VALID_PAGE() test in mm/memory.c:get_page_map(),
> and then gdb should be able to get at the framebuffer.
>

Sorry, this won't work. We'll just get a random page struct outside
mem_map[] and the kernel will die.
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