On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 10:15:24AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Depending on how vmlinux.lds is written, _etext might be the very
first data symbol instead of the very last text symbol.
Don't require it to be a text symbol, accept any symbol type.
I'm adding a Link:
Link: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fall%2F752a31b0-4370-4f52-b7cc-45f0078c1d6c%40csgroup.eu&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C914f4c7995574ee91f5c08dd30211dd6%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638719640997470461%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kqCNbhhgKri3TlJaUb3mkTU6NyFRzhnb%2BDiK93h9aSQ%3D&reserved=0
To give more context as where this has been observed, and also add a
snippet of your explanation there, this:
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# grep -e _stext -e _etext -e _edata /proc/kallsyms
c0000000 T _stext
c08b8000 D _etext
So there is no _edata and _etext is not text