From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
Systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name should return the text addres
Date: 10 Jan 2006 21:26:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mvewr4i02.fsf@tooth.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060110163956.A17329@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com writes:
> [...] Humm..This duplication of symbols in the kernel will be a
> problem for systemtap scripts, as we might end up putting probes in
> the unwanted places :-( [...]
Not at all. Systemtap does not look in System.map. It can qualify
function names with the compilation unit name to make unique the probe
target. For that matter, it only uses /proc/kallsyms as a table to
drive the address-to-name mappings in debug output.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 20:39 kallsyms_lookup_name " Anil S Keshavamurthy
2006-01-10 20:39 ` [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name " Anil S Keshavamurthy
2006-01-10 20:45 ` Paulo Marques
2006-01-10 21:07 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-10 23:11 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-10 23:29 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-11 0:02 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-11 0:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-11 0:23 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-11 0:39 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-01-11 2:26 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-01-10 20:39 ` [patch 2/2] Link new module to the tail of module list Anil S Keshavamurthy
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