[Crash-utility] multiple structs with the same name

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Sun Jun 17 07:24:26 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Yeah, OK -- in fact, I've got to believe that there must be examples
> that exist within the base kernel itself, and not just with modules.
>
> Anyway, for crash-6.0.8 I'll queue up a "set context" (or "set scope"?)
> environment variable that takes a kernel/module text address -- with
> a default of 0 to keep the behavior the same as it is now.

We'll need to use this feature from the trace extension too.  In recent
kernels, the perf subsystem has its own struct ring_buffer so if
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is enabled, the trace extension finds
the wrong struct ring_buffer.

Rabin




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