install System.map in kernel-devel

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 22:28:02 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
 > On 10/23/2007 09:05 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > > The systemtap folks are interested in having System.map installed by
 > > kernel-devel, not just by the kernel rpm itself.  This makes it possible to
 > > do more preparations off-line for a kernel other than an installed one.
 > > 
 > > Without objection, I'll check this in on all branches.
 > > 
 > 
 > Are the addresses in System.map accurate? On the F7 2.6.23 kernel,
 > I had to subtract 0x400000 and add 0x1000000 to the address in an
 > oops message to get an address to use with eu-addr2line.

Relocatable kernel is another thing that really screws with this.

	Dave

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