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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:36:46 +0100
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: fastboot@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/33] kallsyms.c: Generate relocatable symbols.
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text
> so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable
> kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names
> because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported
> from their object files.
>
> [...]
> output_label("kallsyms_addresses");
> for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
> - printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
> + if (toupper(table[i].sym[0]) != 'A') {
> + printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
> + table[i].addr - _text);
> + } else {
> + printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
> + }
Doesn't this break kallsyms for almost everyone?
kallsyms addresses aren't used just for displaying, but also to find
symbols from their addresses (from the stack trace, etc.).
Am I missing something?
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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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