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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Put all functions in kallsyms
    Hi,

    On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Keith Owens wrote:

    > Don't. Almost all kernel threads have a backtrace that goes through
    > __init code, even though that code no longer exists. The symbols are
    > still needed to get a decent backtrace and the overhead is minimal.

    Are you sure, this is still the case? I remember, that this was the main
    reason that kernel_thread() is not an inline function anymore, so AFAICT
    there should be no relevant data on the stack anymore which points to init
    code.

    bye, Roman

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