linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: Allow kernel symbols in L1 to be found in Blackfin architecture

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:51:43 -0400
From:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Bryan Wu" <cooloney@...nel.org>, pmarques@...popie.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: Allow kernel symbols in L1 to be found in Blackfin architecture

On Tue 29 Apr 2008 18:00, Andrew Morton pondered: 
> That's a bit grubby.  I suppose we could pretend not to have noticed,
> but this really isn't the preferred way of putting arch-specific hooks into
> arch-neutral code.
> 
> Nicer might be to add
> 
> void __weak arch_is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
> {
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> with a declaration in linux/kallsyms.h and then override
> arch_is_kernel_text() in arch/blackfin/ code.

I will refactor, and send again.

-Robin
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