Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2008 01:16:06 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: /proc/kallsyms broken in 2.6.26-rc1-git6 |
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> That's not for me to judge, but I believe it has always been like that.
No, normally /proc/kallsyms looks similar to System.tap. Where are all these DW.* symbols coming from? They didn't use to be there and don't make any sense because they don't have any valid kernel addresses.
> I just wanted to understand if you noticed a change in behavior (which > is probably a bug) or if it has always been like that but you just > noticed how ugly it is.
I noticed a change in behavior.
> Maybe you also have some debug or markers configuration or something > that is generating extra symbols to a special section that is just > making the problem look worse now.
Nothing particular. I uploaded the config at http://halobates.de/basil-config
> Anyway, I can change the way kallsyms works, but that has to be done > with some care because there are some userspace tools that read > /proc/kallsyms and we don't want to break those. A proper testing period > through -mm should take care of that, though.
It's the other way round -- kallsyms changed and that change will likely break programs.
-Andi
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