Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:37:08 +1100 |
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On Wednesday 05 December 2007 09:31:23 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000 > > > > Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote: > > > When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, > > > kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak > > > symbol. > > > > > > This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols > > > last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime > > > isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. > > > > what user of this api is affected by this? > > grep -r kallsyms_lookup * does a pretty good job at it ;)
Yeah, we discussed this before and agreed it was best to show strong symbols before weak ones.
Cheers, Rusty.
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