On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > This is an early RFC to not rewrite stuff one more time later on if > the implementation is not acceptable or any major design changes are > required. For the TODO list, please scroll to the end. > > Make kallsyms independent of symbols positions in vmlinux (or module) > by including relative filepath in each symbol's kallsyms value. I.e. > > dev_gro_receive -> net/core/gro.c:dev_gro_receive > > For the implementation details, please look at the patch 3/3. > Patch 2/3 is just a stub, I plan to reuse kallsyms enhancement from > the Rust series for it. > Patch 1/3 is a fix of one modpost macro straight from 2.6.12-rc2. > > A nice side effect is that it's now easier to debug the kernel, as > stacktraces will now tell every call's place in the file tree: That's a side effect, but that does not explain _why_ you want this change. What is this good for? Who can use it? Why is it worth added build times? You don't tell us anything except what this does :( thanks, greg k-h
