Re: Creating new System.map with modules symbol info

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:04 -0500, Adayadil Thomas wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> The System map that was created when compiling kernel does'nt have the symbols
>> of modules that are loaded later. How can I create a new System.map
>> with the symbols of
>> modules also.
>
> maybe a silly question.. but why does it matter? Eg what tool uses this
> info?

Maybe he's creating a tool. Anyway /proc/kallsyms will have all
the symbols and their offsets of the currently running kernel.
It's a good way to find offsets of items not currently exported.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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