On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 01:17, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yeah, but I was trying to get you to do more work. And if the names
> resulting are useless anyway, why apply the patch?
I noticed.
However, not printing empty names makes the trace a lot more useful.
Just doing a symbolic trace on modules on x86, I see pretty much the
correct call trace now.
But, I'll investigate and see if I can find a way of generically telling
if a particular symbol is useful or not.
> > Perhaps there should be a per-arch hook for purging the symbol tables of
> > irrelevant symbols before we do kallsyms lookups in it?
>
> I think you can do it easily in module_finalize... or if we were
> ambitious we'd extract only the function symbols rather than keeping
> the whole strtab and symtab.
Apart from the dubious writing to a const * pointer, yes I can (it's
what I'm doing now). There is some annoyance in that module_finalize
isn't told where the string or symbol tables are, so I have to find them
again.
James
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