----- "Bernhard Walle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Because s390 kernel System.map contains symbols that repeat very often > > grep -c 'L2^B1$' System.map-2.6.27.7-4-default > 276 > > this patch increases the limit in the get_syment_array() call from > 200 to 400. This is a workaround. > > Andreas Krebbel already worked to resolve the problem in binutils which > prevents > that symbols from being included in System.map. > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-01/msg00181.html > > However, since there are kernels (all 2.6.28 at least) out that contain that > problem, we should also workaround that in crash in my opinion. > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[email protected]> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > symbols.c | 4 ++--
I don't like this patch, mainly because it's a waste of space to even accept those types of symbols in the first place. Instead they should be recognized and rejected in the s390_verify_symbol() and s390x_verify_symbol() functions. Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
