linux-kernel - Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

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Message-ID: <20071204133405.13ccd3bb@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:34:05 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000
Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com> wrote:

> 
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, 
> kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak 
> symbol.
> 
> This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols 
> last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime 
> isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.
> 

what user of this api is affected by this?


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