Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:27:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:27:46 -0500 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:59407 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:27:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:34:51 +0000 From: John Levon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New module loader makes kernel debugging much harder Message-ID: <20021124013451.GB58002@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20021124010617.GA58002@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <25797.1038100726@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25797.1038100726@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz X-Scanner: exiscan *18Flfg-000Fql-00*zHDPCChVdZI* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 21 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 -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/