proc_kcore(5) File Formats Manual proc_kcore(5)
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)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 proc_kcore(5)
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