[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/13] Export hypervisor symbols
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:06:46PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 09/23/2013 03:42 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 05:42:00AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > > >I think the title needs a prefix of say: "xen/platform_op:" or such. > > > >>Export Xen's symbols in format similar to Linux' /proc/kallsyms. > >Which is? > > > >I see in Linux: > > > >000000000000bd58 D xen_cr3 > >... > >000000000000e978 d soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt > >.. > >ffffffff8101cef0 T eager_fpu_init > >ffffffff8101d010 t ptrace_triggered > > > >I know that the first column is the EIP (thought some of them seem to be > >based on some offset). The last one is pretty obvious too. > > > >But the middle one: > >konrad@phenom:~$ cat /proc/kallsyms | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq > >b > >B > >d > >D > >r > >R > >t > >T > >V > >W > > > >Could you explain what those mean? And are they part of this? > >Or does Xen not carry those? > > These are symbol types, described in 'man nm'. For Xen we should <sigh> I was doing 'man kallsyms' which of course would not give me that. > only see 't' and 'T' which denote local or global text symbol. > > So the format would be > <address> <type> <symbol name> > > In any case, this is not a comlpetely correct commit message, it > really describes to v1 implementation. With v2 Xen will return these > three values in a structure, which has nothing to do with *format* > of how these symbols are presented. I'll re-phrase it. Thank you. Sorry for the noise - it didn't occur for me to check 'nm' :-( > > (And there other remnants of v1 in this patch that I just noticed, > such as changes to xen/tools/symbols.c which are no longer needed) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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