Kernel symbol naming rules

[Wenda Ni <wonda.ni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

When doing insmod, we find our function named "rxe_mem_alloc" is renamed as "rxe_mem_alloc.isra.2" in kernel symbol table @ /proc/kallsyms

 I am curious why the kernel appends ".isra.2" to the original function. Why this happens? What is this for?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.


Cheers,

 

Wenda Ni, Ph.D.

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