Re: [PATCH] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again

[Sasha Levin]

On 03/17/2014 03:49 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What about duplicate symbol names? Without the full hex address we lose
> > the ability to correctly translate from symbol name to file/line.
>
> Yeah, and we should strive to avoid that issue.
>
> The thing is, think about address randomization. We can pretty much
> assume that is going to be the standard behavior due to it being
> really cheap (just a trivial boot time cost), and helping some
> security issues.
>
> So we might have a few ambiguous cases, that's still better than the
> alternative.

Makes sense. I'll send a patch to rename a small number of "high profile" symbols
that appear often and are duplicated to the respective subsystem maintainers.


Thanks,
Sasha

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