On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i just *know* i'm going to embarrass myself with this question, but > what is the difference between the addresses for a given symbol in > those two locations? Symbols, that are present in both must match. E.g., $ grep jiffies_64 /proc/kallsyms c0122e00 T get_jiffies_64 $ grep get_jiffies_64 /boot/System.map-2.6.16 c0122e00 T get_jiffies_64 > specifically, i'm looking at a fedora 7 system running the latest > "yum updated" kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7. if i look at the System.map > file that came with it that's sitting in the /boot directory, that > tells me this: > > c130bc00 D jiffies > > OTOH, if i check /proc/kallsyms, i'm told this: > > c070bc00 D jiffies > > so how am i supposed to interpret that? Either you're looking at a wrong System.map or fedora guys have messed things up a bit... > i typically use the > contents of /proc/kallsyms to determine a symbol's address, so how am > i supposed to interpret the info in System.map? thanks. Yes, /proc/kallsyms is correct in any case. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
