Re: [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name should return the text addres

[Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:23:28AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" (on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:07:55 -0800 (PST)) wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Keith Owens wrote:
> >> Changing the thread slightly, kallsyms_lookup_name() has never coped
> >> with duplicate local symbols and it cannot do so without changing its
> >> API, and all its callers.  For debugging purposes, it would be nicer if
> >> the kernel did not have any duplicate symbols.  Perhaps some kernel
> >> janitor would like to take that task on.
> >
> >Jesper Juhl was doing some -Wshadow patches.  Would that detect
> >duplicate symbols?
> 
> No, the duplicate symbols are (a) static and (b) in separate source
> files.  Run this against a System.map.
> 
>  awk '{print $NF}' System.map | egrep -v '^__ks|^__func' | sort | uniq -dc | LANG=C sort -k2

Humm..This duplication of symbols in the kernel will be a 
problem for systemtap scripts, as we might end up putting probes
in the unwanted places :-(

I agree with you Keith, from the debugging purposes, it 
would make sense not to have any duplicate symbols.

Thanks,
Anil