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In message <1056942790.10904.324.camel@mulgrave> you write: > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 21:06, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Please test, because that's only one problem. > > > > The other is that the module_text_address() returns true if the value > > is within the module, *not* just if it's within a function. So you > > can get some noise there, too, on archs which don't do real > > backtracing. > > Well, the fix is pretty cast iron in that it will print out the closest > symbol with a non null name (which has got to be better than printing an > empty string). The routine length may still be wrong since the next > closest symbol may still be null. Yeah, but I was trying to get you to do more work. And if the names resulting are useless anyway, why apply the patch? > Perhaps there should be a per-arch hook for purging the symbol tables of > irrelevant symbols before we do kallsyms lookups in it? I think you can do it easily in module_finalize... or if we were ambitious we'd extract only the function symbols rather than keeping the whole strtab and symtab. Cheers! Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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