Re: [PATCH] i386 vsyscall DSO implementation

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
25 Apr 2003 14:00:53 -0700


Followup to: <16041.24730.267207.671647@napali.hpl.hp.com>
By author: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I like this. Even better would be if all platforms could do the same.
> I'm definitely interested in doing something similar for ia64 (the
> getunwind() syscall was always just a stop-gap solution).
>
> I assume that these kernel ELF images would then show up in
> dl_iterate_phdr()?
>
> To complete the picture, it would be nice if the kernel ELF images
> were mappable files (either in /sysfs or /proc) and would show up in
> /proc/PID/maps. That way, a distributed application such as a remote
> debugger could gain access to the kernel unwind tables on a remote
> machine (assuming you have a remote filesystem).
>

How about /boot?

-hpa

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