Kris Corwin wrote: > I built the crash driver into the kernel instead of as a module. > > I have now hacked devmem_is_allowed() to always > return 1 and am waiting for a build to see if that solved my problem. > > Kris > > -- > Crash-utility mailing list > Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility Where there's a will there's a way... Another thing you might try is this: # crash --memory_module /dev/crash vmlinux That might work... and if it does, it's better than /dev/mem because even with devmem_is_allowed() hacked, the mem.c driver only allows access to lowmem, which may be a problem if you want to debug kernel modules whose vmalloc'd memory comes from highmem. Either that, or also hack the mem.c driver's valid_phys_addr_range() function to allow physical addresses greater than "high_memory": static inline int valid_phys_addr_range(unsigned long addr, size_t *count) { unsigned long end_mem; end_mem = __pa(high_memory); if (addr >= end_mem) return 0; if (*count > end_mem - addr) *count = end_mem - addr; return 1; } Dave
