* Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000 > Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, > > kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak > > symbol. > > > > This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols > > last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime > > isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. > > > > what user of this api is affected by this? >
grep -r kallsyms_lookup * does a pretty good job at it ;) kernel/kprobes.c arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c blackfin/kernel/traps.c parisc/kernel/unwind.c powerpc/xmon/xmon.c sh64/kernel/unwind.c kernel/kallsyms.c : sprint_symbol() Then, sprint_symbol users : kernel/lockdep_proc.c kernel/softirq.c mm/slub.c fs/gfs2/glock.c arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c x86/kernel/syscall_64.c Mathieu > > -- > If you want to reach me at my work email, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For development, discussion and tips for power savings, > visit http://www.lesswatts.org > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
