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/proc/kcore - physical memory
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Description
/proc/kcore
This file represents the physical memory of the system and is stored in the ELF core file format.
With this pseudo-file, and an unstripped kernel (/usr/src/linux/vmlinux) binary, GDB can be used
to examine the current state of any kernel data structures.
The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus 4 KiB.
Name
/proc/kcore - physical memory
See Also
proc(5)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 proc_kcore(5)
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