Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems

Richard Earnshaw
2004-10-05T11:21:54Z

Rusty Russell <rusty <at> rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> Russell, I thought about not including any symbol which is not of form
> "[A-Za-z0-9_]+" in kallsyms, for all archs: you are not the only one
> with weird-ass symbols. Is it that you want these mapping symbols in
> /proc/kallsyms but ignored in backtraces, or you don't need them in
> kallsyms altogether?
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

Mapping symbols will always be encoded with STB_LOCAL and STT_NOTYPE. I would
have thought it unlikely that the kernel would ever want to report against any
symbol with those attributes and they could all be dropped on that basis.

R.