[Kgdb-bugreport] Problem getting kgdb to read kernel symbols. addresses shifted?

[Pete/Piet Delaney]

Jason Wessel wrote:

Shouldn't crash, kdump and kgdb take into consideration a
shift in the kernel so that gdb works normally?

Seems that having the kgdb stub knowledgeable of a shift
in the kernel might be easy to compensate for. Perhaps
just mapping all reads and writes that lie within the
original kernel segments to the shifted addresses.

-piet

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>:
>>
>>>> Um, okay.....  How do I do that?  My GDB Fu is weak here; how do I
>>>> tell gdb that the symbols in vmlinux are all offset?  Or how do I
>>>> manipulate the vmlinux binary to offset the symbols?
>>>>
>>> Start gdb with no file.  And do something like:  add-symbol-file vmlinux
>>> 0xBFA00000
>> Um, where did you get "0xBFA0000" from?  Unfortunately this didn't
>> work at all.  I would think to get my numbers to work I'd need to
>> use 0xC0400000 to get sys_close to appear at 0xc047d341.  And
>> viola, that seems to work!  Or at least I got a reasonable breakpoint
>> from the 'target remote'
> 
> It was an example.  You had previously stated it was an offset of
> 0x600000 so it was a subtraction of 0x600000 from 0xc0000000.
> 
> Jaosn.
> 
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