On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 04:56:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:35:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I forget who did this initially and peeling back those layers with git > > > > is tiresome. > > > > > > 1a94bc34768e4 from 2009, although those SyS* things started appearing in > > > stack traces only recently AFAIR. > > > > Note that both sys_something and SyS_something end up in vmlinux symbol > > table, refering to the same address. AFAICS, what matters is which one > > goes first. May be even linker-dependent... > > Actually, it's the first one that kallsyms finds in its binary search. > > If the table is layed out a little differently, it may find the first > one or the second one.
Then maybe it's worth trying to kill these aliases in kallsyms. We also have compat_SyS_something stuff. Actually, most of the aliases seem to be of those forms - after removing (a_sys_b,a_SyS_b) pairs the list of duplicates in System.map shrinks by factor of 15 or so... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
