Re: [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Mar 14 2014 - 15:41:51 EST


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmm. Do you have CONFIG_KALLSYMS enabled?

Just to clarify. KALLSYMS is required to figure out the symbol
addresses on a kaslr system. There's no way to look them up in a
System.map file or the object file, since the addresses aren't going
to match.

Your symptoms really sound like you might not have KALLSYMS enabled.

I wonder if we have a "select KALLSYMS" as part of RANDOMIZE_BASE,
since you need it for debug messages too (random hex numbers aren't
too useful ;)

Linus
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