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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: David Lecomber <david@allinea.com>
Cc: gdb <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ptrace PEEKTEXT  IO error?!
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005195438.GA13350@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128542780.3071.7.camel@cpc2-oxfd8-3-0-cust199.oxfd.cable.ntl.com>

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:06:20PM +0100, David Lecomber wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > It seems ok at reading memory from addresses on the heap and stack --
> > > but it barfs at reading memory from the text segment.  [snip]
> 
> > No, this is most likely a kernel bug.  This is mapped code, right, not
> > some mmaped device file (which is not generally accessible by ptrace)?
> 
> The code I'm trying to read is an ordinary subroutine in an ordinary C
> file.  The program does call a library handling infiniband network
> cards, and there are loads of kernel modules on this machine looking
> after that.  

The infiniband code does all sorts of funky things to VM.  It's
extremely likely that this is repsonsible.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-05 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-05 17:10 David Lecomber
2005-10-05 17:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-05 18:26   ` David Lecomber
2005-10-05 18:40     ` David Lecomber
2005-10-05 18:41     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-05 19:50       ` David Lecomber
2005-10-05 19:54         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-10-05 20:31           ` David Lecomber

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