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mgaunard 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "...

If you use a decent kernel like Linux, there is an API to do that from userspace without requiring you to reboot your kernel under a debugger.

saagarjha 4 months ago [–]

I don't think I'm familiar with that API. What is it?

mgaunard 4 months ago | [–]

It's part of perf_event, available since 2.6.33.

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