Re: PTRACE_{READ,WRITE}{TEXT,DATA}

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> Strange, changing access_process_vm on Fedora 9 made gdb able to
> see video memory that the X server had mmapped.
> 
> Are you sure gdb behaves as you suggest?  
> 
> On x86 my patch seems to work as I expected...

Because /proc/<pid>/mem also uses access_process_vm(). See
fs/proc/base.c

Cheers,
Ben.


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