Re: backtrace symbols are bolixed...

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 03:31:00 EST


Hi Dave,

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:21:01 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sometime in the last day or so backtrace symbol printouts
> have become useless:
>
> [ 0.000000] WARNING: at mm/bootmem.c:535 __stop_notes+0xbb10/0x1d660()
> [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
> [ 0.000000] [00000000008611b4] __stop_notes+0xbb10/0x1d660
> [ 0.000000] [000000000086195c] __stop_notes+0xc2b8/0x1d660
> [ 0.000000] [0000000000861a28] __stop_notes+0xc384/0x1d660
> [ 0.000000] [0000000000858678] __stop_notes+0x2fd4/0x1d660
> [ 0.000000] [000000000085684c] __stop_notes+0x11a8/0x1d660
> [ 0.000000] [00000000006e8bdc] _etext+0xfffffffffffe59f4/0xe18
> [ 0.000000] [0000000000000000] (null)
>
> I'll try to bisect but maybe someone can figure it out quickly
> meanwhile.

Try the following patch:

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:52:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] kallsyms: fix inverted valid symbol checking

The previous commit (17b1f0de) introduced a slightly broken consolidation
of the memory text range checking.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 3cb5789..64343cc 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ static int symbol_valid_tr(struct sym_entry *s)
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(text_ranges); ++i) {
tr = &text_ranges[i];

- if (s->addr >= tr->start && s->addr < tr->end)
- return 0;
+ if (s->addr >= tr->start && s->addr <= tr->end)
+ return 1;
}

- return 1;
+ return 0;
}

static int symbol_valid(struct sym_entry *s)
--
1.6.3.1


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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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