From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:27:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818192709.GA25121@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308140917350.8148-100000@home.osdl.org>
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:19:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > 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?
Speaking only for me, and all that.
I use it. It's actually pretty handy sometimes, because it lets me
peek at task structures et cetera from userspace; so when I have a
problem with the kernel accessing the wrong memory, I can go figure out
what it's actually looking at.
This is a sort of poor-man's-kgdb. I don't think there's much need for
/proc/kcore if you have a working kgdb, which I'd still like to see
cleaned up and integrated.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-14 12:08 [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM Russell King
2003-08-14 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 16:32 ` Russell King
2003-09-17 9:23 ` Russell King
2003-08-14 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-14 16:55 ` John Levon
2003-08-14 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-14 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-14 17:30 ` John Levon
2003-08-14 19:18 ` [PATCH] Export pointer size in oprofilefs John Levon
2003-08-14 17:24 ` [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM Russell King
2003-08-14 20:12 ` Eli Carter
2003-08-14 20:42 ` Russell King
2003-08-18 19:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-08-14 17:16 John Bradford
2003-08-14 17:42 Luck, Tony
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