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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: New module loader makes kernel debugging much harder
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:20:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13542.1038018010@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)

The new module loader makes kernel debugging much harder.

There is no section information available, which means ...

* ksymoops cannot decode oops in modules.  Without section data, there
  is no way to reliably determine where module symbols were loaded.

* kgdb cannot debug modules.  gdb needs to know which modules are
  loaded and where each section of each module starts.

* kdb cannot display the section for a symbol.  Which means the user
  cannot do
    objdump -j <section_name> --adjust-vma=<start_address> module
  to map the code to the original object and source.

The complete lack of kernel and module symbols (no /proc/ksyms) means
that ksymoops is now useless on 2.5 kernels.  If you get an oops in a
kernel built without kksymoops, there is no way to decode the oops.

Big step backwards, Rusty.


             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-23  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-23  2:20 Keith Owens [this message]
2002-11-23  2:35 ` John Levon
2002-11-23  2:43   ` Keith Owens
2002-11-23 16:23     ` John Levon
2002-11-24  0:49       ` Keith Owens
2002-11-24  1:06         ` John Levon
2002-11-24  1:18           ` Keith Owens
2002-11-24  1:34             ` John Levon
2002-11-25  1:26             ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-23  4:22 ` Jamie Lokier

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