Re: [PATCH 1/39] NLKD - an alternative kallsyms approach

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Jan Beulich wrote:

> This patch provides an alternative to the pre-exisiting kallsyms code.
> That code, from a kernel debugger perspective at least, suffers from
> incomplete information, making it impossible to
> (a) disambiguate multiple static functions of the same name (in
> different source files),
> (b) determine a complete set of attributes for a symbol (namely, the
> symbol's size, but also its type, which gets converted to an nm-like
> one-character representation), and
> (c) retain full section information
>
> This new approach basically makes handling core kernel and module
> symbols the same, by retrieving the kernel's section, symbol, and
> string tables rather than parsing the system map.
>
> At once it adds the functionality to strip unneeded symbols from
> modules, which results in non-neglectable space savings for typical
> distributions (which large amounts of modules). Note that with certain
> recent, but broken binutils versions (2.16.90*, 2.16.91* up to
> and including 2.16.91.0.3) this can only be built without
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (actual patch attached)

It's still not a text-type attachment...

BTW, are you posting these just for comments or did you want
someone to apply/merge them?  If so, who?  You should send them
to that someone (unless you have some other arrangements) --
at least that's the normal procedure.

-- 
~Randy
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