From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760806AbYELKAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757915AbYELKAf (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:35 -0400 Received: from bipbip.grupopie.com ([195.23.16.24]:34620 "EHLO bipbip.grupopie.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757932AbYELKAf (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:35 -0400 Message-ID: <48281540.9020207@grupopie.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:00:32 +0100 From: Paulo Marques Organization: Grupo PIE User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (X11/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dobriyan CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc/kallsyms broken in 2.6.26-rc1-git6 References: <20080509174148.GA22246@basil.nowhere.org> <482491D6.9030205@grupopie.com> <4824A7B6.70306@firstfloor.org> <4824AD3C.3070506@grupopie.com> <20080509233742.GA22265@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20080509233742.GA22265@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:59:56PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>>[...] >>> Yes and? Surely that's not correct? >> That's not for me to judge, but I believe it has always been like that. > > *cough* > > Here is how typical /proc/kallsyms looks like: > > ffffffff80200000 A _text > ffffffff80200000 T startup_64 > ffffffff802000b7 t ident_complete > ffffffff80200100 T secondary_startup_64 This isn't helpful... the question is whether it is kallsyms misbehaving and placing new symbols in the kernel image or if it is some other change in the kernel that is generating new symbols that end up in the symbol table. My guess it is that it is the later, and in that case, from a kallsyms standpoint "it has always been like that". -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com "God is love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Ray Charles is God."