On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 16:07 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Whilst there's no normal legitimite usage for it, it is useful for debugging. > > One thing I often do is create a circular log buffer, then fish it back > > out by mmaping /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, and going by system.map offsets. > > No, nobody could claim it was clean or elegant, but it *is* useful. > > relayfs. It's still not in the vanilla kernel. Besides, mapping kmem is more fun :-) -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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