Hi Rob....

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 00:23, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>> >>   then i did cat /proc/kallsyms | grep rday_3
>> >>    i can see the rday_3 in that file,But still I am unable to insmod the 
>> >> m3.ko
>>
>> The address you gave....if I apply 3:1 VM split just like x86..means
>> it's out of kernel address space. So, could you confirm what VM split
>> your current kernel use?
>
>  but how could that cause a problem?  surely that would cause
> problems with *all* module loading, not just my simple example.

It's just my couriousity.... who knows somehow the symbol is
mistakenly relocated outside kernel address space?

>> what if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()? And what I am afraid is that all
>> those symbol are wiped out due to optimization.
>
>  i considered that for a second but if the symbol was wiped out, why
> is it still showing up in the /proc/kallsyms file?

because EXPORT_SYMBOL doesn't care whether it's eventually exported or
not? just my suspicion..


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Mulyadi Santosa
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