Re: [patch 1/2] [BUG]kallsyms_lookup_name should return the text addres

[Keith Owens]

"Randy.Dunlap" (on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:07:55 -0800 (PST)) wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Changing the thread slightly, kallsyms_lookup_name() has never coped
>> with duplicate local symbols and it cannot do so without changing its
>> API, and all its callers.  For debugging purposes, it would be nicer if
>> the kernel did not have any duplicate symbols.  Perhaps some kernel
>> janitor would like to take that task on.
>
>Jesper Juhl was doing some -Wshadow patches.  Would that detect
>duplicate symbols?

No, the duplicate symbols are (a) static and (b) in separate source
files.  Run this against a System.map.

 awk '{print $NF}' System.map | egrep -v '^__ks|^__func' | sort | uniq -dc | LANG=C sort -k2

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