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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_kcore.5 b/man/man5/proc_kcore.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8848c6458 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_kcore.5 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_kcore 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/kcore \- physical memory +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /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 +.RI ( /usr/src/linux/vmlinux ) +binary, GDB can be used to +examine the current state of any kernel data structures. +.IP +The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus +4\ KiB. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |