[Crash-utility] Patching more pseudo section symbols from layouts

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 15:19:10 UTC 2011



----- Original Message -----
> 
> Come to think of it, this is not important for analysis very much
> as against making possible destructive impacts at the same time.
> So I decide to cancel this patch set at here.

OK good -- that patch was way too complex for just being able display
those additional section addresses.  Plus, for example, it resulted in
this when run on RHEL5:
 
crash> mod -S
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=31936 : orig=31904
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
     MODULE       NAME                        SIZE  OBJECT FILE
ffffffff88007e80  ehci_hcd                   65741  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=22048 : orig=21984
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
ffffffff88017800  ohci_hcd                   55925  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=23552 : orig=23488
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
ffffffff88026e00  uhci_hcd                   57433  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .gnu.linkonce.this_module calc=61056 : orig=60800
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
ffffffff8803fd80  jbd                        94257  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=132800 : orig=132192
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
ffffffff8806ae00  ext3                      168017  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=158336 : orig=157792
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
ffffffff8809ca80  scsi_mod                  196569  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko 
mod: Fail to resolve section layout for .data calc=22016 : orig=21952
mod: module section layout could not work out yet.
mod: ver: linux-2.6.18 mach: X86_64
...

But I will keep your first module-section-address-display patch
queued for crash-6.0.2.

Dave




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