Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:08:00 -0700 | From | "Tony Luck" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH] debug: add notifier chain debugging |
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>> This breaks on ia64 (and pa-risc I think) where function pointers >> don't point directly at the code, they point to a {code,data} >> structure which is itself located in data space, not text space. > > is there a way to go to the actual address? I'm sure this is a bit more > common.... (like kallsyms!)
See dereference_function_descriptor() in lib/vsprintf.c (where it will be clear that my memory was wrong and that PPC64 is the other architecture that needs this).
Perhaps this needs to be moved to some place in asm-generic so that it can be used by code like your sanity check?
-Tony
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