Re: [PATCH] Put all functions in kallsyms

Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:11:39 +0200 (CEST)


Hi,

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Keith Owens wrote:

> Don't. Almost all kernel threads have a backtrace that goes through
> __init code, even though that code no longer exists. The symbols are
> still needed to get a decent backtrace and the overhead is minimal.

Are you sure, this is still the case? I remember, that this was the main
reason that kernel_thread() is not an inline function anymore, so AFAICT
there should be no relevant data on the stack anymore which points to init
code.

bye, Roman

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