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Re: Location of vmlinux debuginfo file


Roland McGrath wrote:
I was wrong in my original email. SLES puts vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug in /usr/lib/debug/boot. If I create a link from that file to /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r` it works.

Ah. But there is no file called /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.

Yeah, I had the link direction backwards. Guess I shouldn't send email before I've been sufficiently caffeinated in the morning :-)



I'm not seeing where it ever tries to open a corresponding /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug file.

It doesn't. If /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r` existed and was an ELF file containing a .gnu.debuglink section giving the name vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug, then it would look for a /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug file.

The standard debuginfo-finding behavior is based on starting with a
stripped ELF file that the debuginfo corresponds to. Given that there
isn't any such file for the kernel in many setups, it is certainly
reasonable to look for /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug as a
special case (at least as reasonable as looking for
/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`).



OK, I think I'm starting to understand (slowly, sorry :-)). So in the case where we only have compressed vmlinu[zx] files in /boot and no /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux (which is true for i386 and x86_64 in SLES 10) we need to open /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.debug directly. On the other hand, if we have /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r` and a corresponding .debug file in /usr/lib/debug/boot (which is true on ppc64 in SLES 10), then opening /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r` is sufficient.


Would a patch like this be a suitable fix? It works for me.

diff -uNr elfutils-0.122.orig/libdwfl/linux-kernel-modules.c elfutils-0.122.new/libdwfl/linux-kern
el-modules.c
--- elfutils-0.122.orig/libdwfl/linux-kernel-modules.c  2006-04-13 08:04:57.000000000 -0700
+++ elfutils-0.122.new/libdwfl/linux-kernel-modules.c   2006-08-16 10:43:15.000000000 -0700
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@
    {
      free (fname);
      fname = NULL;
+      asprintf (&fname, "/boot/vmlinux-%s%s", release, ".debug");
+      fd = try_kernel_name (dwfl, &fname);
+    }
+  if (fd < 0 && release[0] != '/')
+    {
+      free (fname);
+      fname = NULL;
      asprintf (&fname, MODULEDIRFMT "/vmlinux", release);
      fd = try_kernel_name (dwfl, &fname);
    }


Thanks, Mike


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