On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:19:56 +0200 Xavier Bru wrote:
| Hi all!
|
| There is a problem with the all kallsyms support in 2.6.7
| scripts/kallsyms.c.
| Building the table reserves the adresses for all the kernel symbols in
| first step, then generates the effective addresses of the symbols in step 2.
| The problem is that the symbols used to build the symbol table are not
| taken in account for the size calculation, but are included in the table
| in step 2.
| This makes the table "bigger" than was allocated, and the symbols that
| come behind are shifted.
| This makes kallsyms (and KDB) give wrong addresses for these symbols.
|
| One solution is to exclude from the symbol table the symbols used for
| building it (As was provided in KDB patch :-)
Is this the same problem that Keith Owens made a patch for
against 2.6.7-rc3 on 2004-june-15?
Subject: [patch 2.6.7-rc3] When two kallsyms passes are not enough
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108728234402407&w=2
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