linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: fix faddr2line to work on last symbol

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwe2pqjZXZ_1+y7TdytyEjtkBjOceHzzLFLiSPtD9avzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:27:50 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: fix faddr2line to work on last symbol

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> We need to refactor the script a bit to be more section-aware.  Instead
> of nm, I think it will need to use objdump or readelf, since nm doesn't
> seem to have an option for dumping the section name.

Fair enough, but I'll apply Neil's patch in the meantime as a stopgap.

               Linus