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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH?] Crash in 2.4.17/ptrace
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:42:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C55C5C1.AF01CB3B@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020128153210.A3032@nevyn.them.org> <3C55BC89.EDE3105C@zip.com.au>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-28 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-28 20:32 [PATCH?] Crash in 2.4.17/ptrace Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-28 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-28 21:19   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-28 21:29     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-28 21:55       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 22:12       ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-29 22:59         ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2002-01-29 23:02           ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  0:13             ` James Simmons
2002-01-28 22:15       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-01-28 23:57         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-28 23:54       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-29  5:35         ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-28 23:47     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-28 21:42   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-28 21:33 Manfred Spraul
2002-01-28 22:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 22:07   ` Manfred Spraul
2002-01-28 22:26   ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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