fedora rawhide problems with kprobes/debuginfo addresses

[Vara Prasad]

Vivek Goyal wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:34:49PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
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>>Ok, so you are talking about using magic arch knowledge to know what
>>virtual address range might include the kernel mapping and finding a memory
>>region there.  That is worse than the kallsyms heuristic I'm doing, for
>>purposes of making things reasonable in userland.
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>I understand that using /proc/kallsyms is much easier but it does not work
>if somebody built a custom kernel without kallsyms support.
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How often customers build their own custom kernels? If they do build, 
doesn't distro support contract gets void?
I personally think usefulness of kallsyms outweigh the risk of not 
supporting custom kernels.

>Thanks
>Vivek
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