Re: [PATCH v4 02/21] kallsyms: Export kallsyms_lookup_name

Mukesh Ojha
2023-06-28T15:05:44Z

On 6/28/2023 6:54 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:35 PM Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> wrote:
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>> Module like minidump providing debugging support will need to
>> get the symbol information from the core kernel e.g to get
>> the linux_banner, kernel section addresses bss, data, ro etc.
>>
>> commit 0bd476e6c671 ("kallsyms: unexport kallsyms_lookup_name()
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> Commit
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>> and kallsyms_on_each_symbol()") unexports kallsyms_lookup_name
>> due to lack of in-tree user of the symbol. Now, that minidump
>> will one of its user, export it.
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> users
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> ...
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> Is it a direct revert? Then make it visible by leaving pieces from `git revert`.
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No, it is not direct revert..

> ...
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>> -
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> If not, drop this stray change.

ok

- Mukesh
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>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kallsyms_lookup_name);
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