c5db76fcdd
commit e9c9cb90e76ffaabcc7ca8f275d9e82195fd6367 upstream.
When debugging vmlinux with QEMU + GDB, the following GDB error may
occur:
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint -1.
Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffff95c0
Command aborted.
(gdb)
The reason is that, when .interp section is present, GDB tries to
locate the file specified in it in memory and put a number of
breakpoints there (see enable_break() function in gdb/solib-svr4.c).
Sometimes GDB finds a bogus location that matches its heuristics,
fails to set a breakpoint and stops. This makes further debugging
impossible.
The .interp section contains misleading information anyway (vmlinux
does not need ld.so), so fix by discarding it.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.