fedora rawhide problems with kprobes/debuginfo addresses

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 16:10:00 GMT 2007


Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:

> I understand that using /proc/kallsyms is much easier but it does
> not work if somebody built a custom kernel without kallsyms support.

True.  As Roland says, we need kallsyms, but really only for producing
symbolic stack tracebacks.  We could get by with /sys/modules/* alone
for purposes of probe placement.  Again, any chance of having the
kernel list itself in there?

- FChE



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