[Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace

Theodore Tso tytso@mit.edu
Tue Jul 1 02:42:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:42:19PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > [...]  What about stripping out the text segment of the object
> > files, so you aren't storing the information twice on disk, or
> > compressing the debuginfo files so they take up less room on disk?
> 
> This is roughly what the Fedora/RHEL-style separated .ko.debug files
> do, though I don't know if they are that complete.  (They'd need a
> copy of the symbol tables, and probably other stuff.)

Do you have a pointer to whatever program is used to generate the
Fedora/RHEL-style separated .ko.debug files?

Thanks, regards,

						- Ted



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