Hello, Many monitoring tools use /proc/kallsyms to build a symbol table for the kernel. This technique has the advantage that it does not require root privileges, nor an up-to-date /boot/System.map, nor a decompressed kernel in /boot.
The problem is that /proc/kallsyms does not report the size of the symbols. Yet, the information is available in the kernel as it is used by functions such as __print_symbol(). Having the size is useful to correlate the address obtained is a sample with a symbol name. Most tools use an approximation which assumes symbols are contiguous to estimate the size. Apart from the backward compatbility problem for the output of kallsyms, what would be the major issue with exposing this information? Thanks. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
