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proc_kcore - physical memory

NAME  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO 

NAME

/proc/kcore − physical memory

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.

SEE ALSO

proc(5)


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