Re: PATCH] debug: add notifier chain debugging

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:13 -0700
"Tony Luck" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +       if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) {
> > +               WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!");
> > +               return 0;
> > +       }
> 
> This breaks on ia64 (and pa-risc I think) where function pointers
> don't point directly at the code, they point to a {code,data}
> structure which is itself located in data space, not text space.

is there a way to go to the actual address? I'm sure this is a bit more
common.... (like kallsyms!)


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