* Really stupid /sys/modules patch
@ 2006-08-31 13:30 Ian S. Nelson
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From: Ian S. Nelson @ 2006-08-31 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, akpm, linux-kernel
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I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it
can't probe a lot of modules. Turns out it's kind of silly, the
sections section of /sys/module is limited to 32bytes and many of the
actual sections are a a bit longer than that.
It seems to fix systemtap.
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diff -urP linux-2.6.17.11/CREDITS linux-2.6.17.11.fixed/CREDITS
--- linux-2.6.17.11/CREDITS 2006-08-23 15:16:33.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.17.11.fixed/CREDITS 2006-08-31 07:00:42.194781826 -0600
@@ -2469,7 +2469,8 @@
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diff -urP linux-2.6.17.11/include/linux/module.h linux-2.6.17.11.fixed/include/linux/module.h
--- linux-2.6.17.11/include/linux/module.h 2006-08-23 15:16:33.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.17.11.fixed/include/linux/module.h 2006-08-30 20:32:14.974645595 -0600
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
};
/* Similar stuff for section attributes. */
-#define MODULE_SECT_NAME_LEN 32
+#define MODULE_SECT_NAME_LEN 96
struct module_sect_attr
{
struct module_attribute mattr;
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