modules, add_kallsyms() && DEFINE_PER_CPU

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Note: this doesn't work for modules, but module's per-cpu data is
> not visible for kallsyms_lookup_name() anyway.

Rusty, I am just curious if it makes sense to change this or not...

But DEFINE_PER_CPU'ed symbols are ignored by add_kallsyms(). I guess
this is because is_core_symbol() requires "sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC".
And probably because of INIT_OFFSET_MASK.

Oleg.

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