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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:31:53 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "freebsd-dtrace@freebsd.org" <freebsd-dtrace@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Dtrace in a jail
Message-ID:  <55F29179.7030305@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150911045446.GA55832@raichu>
References:  <CAOc73CAOVcbD8KXGA5S6jkx4MqX-zRWWWh0h1PDCFeF7dCbhqQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFMmRNzOjDM1dcUF3rHfDRBzyfuZAqNB4=AuhT0wmGZ-uLALYw@mail.gmail.com> <20150911045446.GA55832@raichu>

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On 11/09/2015 07:54, Mark Johnston wrote:
> A copy of the kernel binary needs to be available too: the kernel's CTF
> section is not automatically mapped into memory during boot, but is
> loaded upon first use. CTF isn't strictly needed to use DTrace, though.

[Off-topic]

Pity that we do not have /dev/ksyms that exposes the actual (in-memory) kernel
layout as an ELF object.
Also, it's a pity that our crashdump format does not provide for saving a kernel
along a memory dump (esp. given that a size of the former << a size of the latter).

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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