From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, compudj@krystal.dyndns.org,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:17:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204131746.ede01c65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755BA14.8060706@grupopie.com>
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names,
> kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak
> symbol.
>
> This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols
> last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime
> isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.
>
> Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So,
> even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail
> to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this.
>
>
I don't understand the reason for making this change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 20:35 [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols Paulo Marques
2007-12-04 21:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-05 12:07 ` Paulo Marques
2007-12-04 21:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-04 21:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 21:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-04 22:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-05 9:37 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-05 2:05 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-05 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 5:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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