Re: Module support

[Tachino Nobuhiro <tachino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:32:35 -0700,
Hiro Sugawara wrote:

> BTW, I have always been thinking that the "System.map" argument is
> redundant. It could be replaced with a shell command line like:
> 
> `nm vmlinux|awk --posix '{if ($1 ~ /c[[:xdigit:]]{7}$) print}'|sort|uniq`
> (Some nm's seem to use 64 bit addresses. So, do not put an assumption
> of an 8-digit address field)
> 
> This way, lcrash would only need the module binary files (with debug
> information for the better, but not mandatory).
> 

  You cannot use vmlinux if it is replaced by kernel update or
any other reason. System.map is OK because it is saved with a crash dump by
vmdump.
  I think module support requires the same function. You need the
symbol maps of modules which was actually loaded when a crash occurred.