On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:51 -0700, Siekas, Greg wrote:
> > I've noticed that for some reason proc.psinfo.wchan_s is broken? This
> > used to decode the wait channel name.
> > ...
> > The namelist is readable? Any other suggestions for things to look at?
>
> It looks like the code has atrophied. Modern Linux kernels don't have
> the /proc/ksyms file its looking for ... so it never moves on to the
> stage where it looks at the System.map files. Lemme go take a closer
> look, see if this is straightforward to fix or not. It may be simpler
> now, as we have /proc/kallsyms which looks like its got everything we
> need here.
that may be.. nevertheless neither the System.map nor /proc/kallsyms
contain the addresses coming out of /proc/<pid>/stat, nor entries
for the symbols as reported by ps -l. How is ps -l doing it?
Dr.Michael("Kimba")Newton kimbrr@xxxxxxx
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