Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: record relocation offset
From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Wed Dec 30 2009 - 22:00:45 EST
Hi Peter,
Thanks for you review and tell us the better way to get relocation offset.
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> The first I saw of this thread was a proposed patch that would give the
> relocation offset of the monolithic kernel, both on 32 and 64 bits,
> without any explanation of the usage model. As such, from my point of
> view this has always been about the monolithic kernel, until your post
> mentioned modules (which the proposed patch would have done nothing about.)
>
We no need care modules symbols since we get module load address from
'/proc/modules', no matter is relocated or not. And perf tools just use
this way. So, it done nothing about it in my patch, maybe i should mention
it in my patch's changlog
Thanks,
Xiao
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