Section 5 · File formats
proc_kcore.5
Package: man-pages
proc_kcore
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)