linux-kernel - Re: /proc/kallsyms broken in 2.6.26-rc1-git6

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Message-ID: <20080512155052.GB6913@cvg>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 19:50:52 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/kallsyms broken in 2.6.26-rc1-git6

[Paulo Marques - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:00:32AM +0100]
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:59:56PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> Yes and? Surely that's not correct?
>>> That's not for me to judge, but I believe it has always been like that.
>> *cough*
>> Here is how typical /proc/kallsyms looks like:
>> ffffffff80200000 A _text
>> ffffffff80200000 T startup_64
>> ffffffff802000b7 t ident_complete
>> ffffffff80200100 T secondary_startup_64
>
> This isn't helpful... the question is whether it is kallsyms misbehaving 
> and placing new symbols in the kernel image or if it is some other change 
> in the kernel that is generating new symbols that end up in the symbol 
> table.
>
> My guess it is that it is the later, and in that case, from a kallsyms 
> standpoint "it has always been like that".
>
> -- 
> Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
>
>

If it help - I've taken Andi's config, compiled the kernel and
didn't find any screwed symbols (nor is System.map nor in /proc/kallsyms).
The kernel - today Linus's git tree:

---
commit 492c2e476eac010962850006c49df326919b284c
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun May 11 17:09:41 2008 -0700

    Linux 2.6.26-rc2
---

The diff btw Andi's config and new one is:

+CONFIG_PCSPKR_PLATFORM=y
-CONFIG_PCNET32_NAPI=y

		- Cyrill -
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