On 08-Mar-2015, at 11:00 pm, Jamal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.. > > After reading Documentation on System.map, i understood that , whenever > an oops happens the following addresses will be converted to its > function name by klogd daemon using System.map. > > Now when we have /proc/kallsyms which stores the symbol table in the > kernel image itself.Then what is the need of System.map file??Is any > process or daemon still using it?? My 2 cents. No. However, Since kallsyms bloats the kernel and makes it larger production kernel may not have it. In such case it will rely on System.map and ksymsoops for decoding oops messages. > > Regards, > Md.Jamal Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
