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docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel
authorZhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:51:45 +0000 (16:51 +0800)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:49:01 +0000 (14:49 -0600)
commite604f1cb85367d2e5fd4cf253296d190996da81a
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docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

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.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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