On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:31:58AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > Right, I did see another googled-reference to other demangling/cloning > text symbols with extensions added to them, but I want to be very careful > not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. > > So far it does seem safe to truncate all of the ".isra." symbols. > > But then I looked at the ".constprop." symbols, for example: > > crash> sym -q kzalloc > ffffffff81068060 (t) kzalloc.constprop.8 > ffffffff8108c630 (t) kzalloc > ffffffff8134d1ee (t) kzalloc.constprop.2 > ffffffff8134f1dd (t) kzalloc > ffffffff81358f5d (t) kzalloc > ffffffff8135ff7d (t) kzalloc > ffffffff813691fd (t) kzalloc > ffffffff813a53c0 (t) kzalloc > ffffffff813aca30 (t) kzalloc.constprop.3 > ... > > If I stripped them, a "dis kzalloc" would then select the > first one it sees, which may not be the one of interest. > I think that it would probably be more helpful, or at least > safer, if they were left as is. Agreed. > And then there are the ".part." symbols with no preceding ".isra.". > I haven't had the chance to study whether it's safe to strip > them, but upon first glance they look strippable. > > But I want to do this carefully, perhaps also adding an invocation > command line to opt-out of any stripping at all. OK, and the command line option sounds good too. -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility