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

From	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/1] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
Date	2017-07-17 22:50 +0200
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On Fri,  7 Jul 2017 15:11:46 +0800
Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.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

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