From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263117AbUEJXRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:17:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263100AbUEJXRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:17:00 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao02.cox.net ([68.230.241.37]:26546 "EHLO fed1rmmtao02.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262902AbUEJXOd (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:13:36 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Rusty Russell Cc: Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH] All Symbols in /proc/kallsyms Message-ID: <20040510231336.GE2196@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <1084166916.8127.46.camel@bach> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1084166916.8127.46.camel@bach> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:28:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > Debuggers (ie. xmon) can use kallsyms, but they want all symbols, not > just functions. Fair enough. > > Name: Debugging Option to Put text symbols in kallsyms > Status: Tested on 2.6.6-rc3-bk11 > > kallsyms contains only function names, but some debuggers (eg. xmon on > PPC/PPC64) use it to lookup symbols: it'd be much nicer if it included > data symbols too. Shouldn't you make xmon depend on both of these, on ppc64? (iirc, it won't compile w/o KALLSYMS, so select/suggest, or whatever, and ppc32 hasn't yet had the kallsyms stuff backported). -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/