From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:34:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204133405.13ccd3bb@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755BA14.8060706@grupopie.com>
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
>
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names,
> kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak
> symbol.
>
> This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols
> last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime
> isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.
>
what user of this api is affected by this?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 20:35 Paulo Marques
2007-12-04 21:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-05 12:07 ` Paulo Marques
2007-12-04 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 21:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 21:34 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-12-04 22:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-05 9:37 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-05 2:05 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-05 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 5:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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