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How to dump user space stacks in Linux kernel on memory fault?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (kernel-5.10.24), the CPU is 32bit MIPs.
The applications run in the system may trigger invalid memory access, which will be shot by a SIGSEGV from kernel, and ...
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What does the "segfault at X" kernel log message mean if X is very large?
I've got a device with bad RAM. Running memtest overnight shows all faulting addresses to be in the 0x7d0000000 - 0x7f0000000 range. I plan to replace the RAM, but until then, I've disabled a 2GB ...
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Random application crashes in Linux
Sometimes after booting my computer, some applications fail to start: they crash. They're usually the largest ones, such as firefox, thunderbird or virtualbox. Rebooting or cleaning the cache usually ...
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Will Linux start killing my processes without asking me if memory gets short?
I was running a shell script with commands to run several memory-intensive programs (2-5 GB) back-to-back. When I went back to check on the progress of my script I was surprised to discover that some ...
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Does segfaults mean bad memory
This is a brand new server with a new install and fresh compile of Apache/PHP with nothing crazy. Just a WordPress site hosted and I get the following.
Could this just mean bad RAM? If so how can I ...
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.dtors looks writable, but attempts to write segfault
This is Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-11-server, 32bit x86
$ cat test.c
main() { int *dt = (int *)0x08049f18; *dt = 1; }
$ readelf -S ./test
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[18] .dtors PROGBITS 08049f14 000f14 000008 ...
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