On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Dave Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Dave, >> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Dave Anderson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> Hi list, >> >> >> >> I find in current 6.1.4 crash, when load module with "mod -S", >> >> only module's function symbol could be parsed out. >> >> >> >> But for module's global variant, crash cannot find related >> >> symbol... >> >> Any idea for this? >> >> >> > >> > Without the debuginfo data from the module.ko.debug file, crash >> > gets all of its module symbol data from the kernel. So it uses >> > what's available in the in-kernel /proc/kallsyms list plus the >> > information stored in each module's "struct module". The >> > store_module_symbols_v2() function does the work. >> > >> > If "mod -[sS]" is used, then crash has access to full debuginfo >> > data >> > from the module.ko.debug file. In that case, the >> > store_load_module_symbols() >> > function does the work. >> > >> >> For current, what I saw is when I have loaded the module, only >> the t or T type symbol is installed, while others like d or D type it >> would not be loaded at all... >> >> While for one symbol, I already knows its member has a specific >> magic number, so that I search the memory, and find its virtual >> address becomes to 0xexxxxxxx, not the 0xbfxxxxxx. >> So does it mean the debuginfo in that module only has text related, >> while data type are all muted, and why?... >> >> >> Thanks, >> Lei > > I have no idea. With x86/x86_64 you can see text, data and bss > symbols both before and after the "mod -[sS]" command is run. > > Dave >
Add Mike... Mike, Do you have any idea for this? Thanks, Lei -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
