From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764962AbXGVJZW (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761956AbXGVJZK (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:25:10 -0400 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55380 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761683AbXGVJZI (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:25:08 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 vDSO: install unstripped copies on disk Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:24:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070722031312.681484D05C1@magilla.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070722031312.681484D05C1@magilla.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707221124.59784.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 22 July 2007 05:13:12 Roland McGrath wrote: > This keeps an unstripped copy of the vDSO images built before they are > stripped and embedded in the kernel. The unstripped copies get installed > in $(MODLIB)/vdso/ by "make install". These files can be useful when they > contain source-level debugging information. Hmm, how would the debugger find them? There won't be any reference from the vdso to them. If you do that then you should probably add a debuglink reference first. -Andi