From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:44:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15TGiV-0008WI-00@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:22:40 +1000." <22165.996722560@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
In message <22165.996722560@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> you write:
> The IA64 use of descriptors for function pointers has bitten ksymoops.
> For those not familiar with IA64, &func points to a descriptor
> containing { &code, &data_context }. System.map contains the address
> of the code, /proc/ksyms contains the address of the descriptor.
> insmod needs the descriptor address, ksymoops and debuggers need the
> code address, /proc/ksyms needs to contain both addresses, with one of
> them prefixed by a special character.
Eewwww....
How about just adding /proc/ksyms-ia64 with the code pointers
which contains the ia64 code addresses required by ksymoops and
debuggers. These are, after all, less vital than insmod.
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-05 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-02 3:22 [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 Keith Owens
2001-08-05 5:44 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-08-05 7:16 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-05 14:02 ` Rusty Russell
2001-08-05 14:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-05 9:29 ` PPC? (Was: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64) Kai Henningsen
2001-08-05 19:41 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-05 20:26 ` Peter A. Castro
2001-08-06 3:05 ` Brad Boyer
2001-08-06 22:43 ` Rob Barris
2001-08-07 3:47 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-08-19 1:27 ` [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 Richard Henderson
2001-08-21 6:53 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-21 17:47 ` Richard Henderson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-02 12:42 [Linux-ia64] [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 (fwd) Jack Steiner
2001-08-02 13:25 ` [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 Keith Owens
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