----- "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 > > and the limit for symbols with the same name in get_syment_array() is 200, > we filter out that symbols by modifying s390_verify_symbol() and > s390x_verify_symbol(). > > The symbols are not needed in crash anyway, because that are only local > labels and not global symbols needed by crash. > > This is 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.
Queued for the next release. Thanks, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
