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Re: fedora rawhide problems with kprobes/debuginfo addresses
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: vgoyal at in dot ibm dot com
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>, Dave Jones <davej at redhat dot com>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 05 Mar 2007 11:10:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: fedora rawhide problems with kprobes/debuginfo addresses
- References: <20070305040709.GA4880@in.ibm.com> <20070305063449.683141801C4@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20070305071641.GB4880@in.ibm.com>
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