Re: BUG: different symbol address between System.map and /proc/kallsyms

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/20/2009 05:20 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The symbol address in System.map and /proc/kallsys is different:
> 
> # cat System.map | grep _text
>   c1000000 T _text
> # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep _text
>   c0100000 T _text
> 
> # readelf -s vmlinux | grep _text
> 35078: c1000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 _text
> 
> So, perf can't get sysmbol address properly:
> 
> # ./perf report
> # Samples: 29
> #
> # Overhead  Command        Shared Object  Symbol
> # ........  .......  ...................  ......
> #
>     93.10%    sleep             c014f988  [k] 0x000000c014f988
>      3.45%    sleep  libc-2.9.90.so       [.] _int_malloc
>      3.45%    sleep  [kernel]             [k] 0x000000c014f988

That is normal if you have a relocatable kernel which has been loaded at
the non-compile-time default address.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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