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From: wonda.ni@gmail.com (Wenda Ni)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel symbol naming rules
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:58:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEnvTt356g-xN21bs8jcjoy75tukkm3CWPFHwgrb7F5zAMvbrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

When doing insmod, we find our function named "rxe_mem_alloc" is renamed as
"rxe_mem_alloc.isra.2" in kernel symbol table @ /proc/kallsyms

 I am curious why the kernel appends ".isra.2" to the original function.
Why this happens? What is this for?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.


Cheers,

Wenda Ni, Ph.D.
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