Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:16:41 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200308141716.h7EHGfqg000643@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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> > After reviewing the /proc/kcore and kclist issues, I've decided that I'm
> > no longer prepared to even _think_ about supporting /proc/kcore on ARM -
>
> I suspect we should just remove it altogether.
>
> Does anybody actually _use_ /proc/kcore? It was one of those "cool 
> feature" things, but I certainly haven't ever used it myself except for 
> testing, and it's historically often been broken after various kernel 
> infrastructure updates, and people haven't complained..
>
> Comments?

I've used it on a few rare occasions for last-ditch data recovery
before, E.G. an application crashed that had a text file held in RAM
that wasn't ever written to disk.  Poking through /proc/kcore could
allow it's recovery.

Probably not a sufficent reason to keep it :-).

John.
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