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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:42:25 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH?] Crash in 2.4.17/ptrace
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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.
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