Dave Cecil wrote:
>
> Firstly, please forgive me if the questions I ask are ignorant. I'm on a
> steep learning curve at present.
>
> I want to display the value of a variable in my loadable module, but of
> course gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore can't do that.
>
> I believe that I should be able to get at that value via /dev/mem or
> /dev/kmem, given that I know the address of the variable.
You can use /dev/kmem with virtual address of a symbol.
/dev/kmem can be used to read any *valid* virtual address.
(/dev/kmem can be used to write to kernel data but not module
data)
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