linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/1] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

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Message-ID: <20170717144939.3d07c209@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:49:39 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
Cc:     jason.wessel@...driver.com, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

On Fri,  7 Jul 2017 15:11:46 +0800
Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.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