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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	Systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name should return the text addres
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:23:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20396.1136939008@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:07:55 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601101606380.12724@shark.he.net>

"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


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-10 20:39 kallsyms_lookup_name should return the text addres Anil S Keshavamurthy
2006-01-10 20:39 ` [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name " Anil S Keshavamurthy
2006-01-10 20:45   ` Paulo Marques
2006-01-10 21:07     ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-10 23:11       ` Keith Owens
2006-01-10 23:29         ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-11  0:02           ` Keith Owens
2006-01-11  0:07             ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-11  0:23               ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-01-11  0:39                 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-11  2:26                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-01-10 20:39 ` [patch 2/2] Link new module to the tail of module list Anil S Keshavamurthy

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