Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2008 21:28:36 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: /proc/kallsyms broken in 2.6.26-rc1-git6 |
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[Sam Ravnborg - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:23:23PM +0200] | On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > [Paulo Marques - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:00:32AM +0100] | > > 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 | > > | > > | > | > If it help - I've taken Andi's config, compiled the kernel and | > didn't find any screwed symbols (nor is System.map nor in /proc/kallsyms). | | I expect it to be a toolchain issue. Andi is often running with gcc versions | that are very new (fresh from svn maybe). I dunno about binutils. | To reproduce I would expect that a very recent gcc/binutils is needed. | Andi? | | Sam |
Probably, I've used: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2) sys-devel/binutils 2.18-r1
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