Re: SyS symbol munging.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:35:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > I forget who did this initially and peeling back those layers with git
> > > is tiresome.
> > 
> > 1a94bc34768e4 from 2009, although those SyS* things started appearing in
> > stack traces only recently AFAIR.
> 
> Note that both sys_something and SyS_something end up in vmlinux symbol
> table, refering to the same address.  AFAICS, what matters is which one
> goes first.  May be even linker-dependent...

Actually, it's the first one that kallsyms finds in its binary search.

If the table is layed out a little differently, it may find the first
one or the second one.

-- Steve

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