On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > 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 verified the above twice before posting, just because it looked so strange. the authoritative source would be, of course, /proc/kallsyms. i'll ask on the fedora list to see if someone has an explanation. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
