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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:49:39 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Cc: jason.wessel@windriver.com, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
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On Fri,  7 Jul 2017 15:11:46 +0800
Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> wrote:

> commit 6807c84652b0 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
> by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel 
> symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
> kernel debugging. 

These two patches have been applied to the docs tree.

Thanks,

jon