On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:40:42PM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote: > Currently, VMCOREINFO note information reports the virtual address of > phys_base that is assigned to symbol phys_base. But this doesn't make > sense because to refer to value of the phys_base, it's necessary to > get the value of phys_base itself we are now about to refer to. > Hi Hatayama, /proc/vmcore ELF headers have virtual address information and using that you should be able to read actual value of phys_base. gdb deals with virtual addresses all the time and can read value of any symbol using those headers. So I am not sure what's the need for exporting actual value of phys_base. Thanks Vivek