Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Dec 3, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I don't think that the things that KASLR randomizes by default are useful
> to debugging. I.e. you can't depend on two successive kernel crashes to
> have identical PTE addresses; OTOH you can depend that the text addresses
> are the same (which are for GENERIC and are not for GENERIC_KASLR).

Oh, that depends.  I would say if you are debugging a low-level VM problem, being able to have a predictable PTE address at the time of a crash could be VERY helpful.

-- thorpej