----- "Hu Tao" <hutao(a)cn.fujitsu.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Dave, > > When I was investigating the backtrace problem(crash doesn't show > some functions from backtrace output), I found the reason was that > there was a dead-looping(or anything that would block module init > function) in module init function, in which case kernel had no chance > to update mod->symtab from mod->core_symtab, and mod->symtab was > still referring into the module init section which was not freed > until the end of module init function. > > Since crash never searches module init function for symbols, in the > case we can't see any symbol from module from the backtrace output. > > Following patch makes crash search the module init section for > symbols too if the section is not null. > > -- > Thanks, > Hu Tao In addition to the initial suggestions I had re: your patch, I made several additions so that more functions than value_search() and symbol_dump() would find the init symbols. With your patch, commands like these still did not find the init symbols: sym <symbol-name> sym -q <string> sym -n <symbol> sym -p <symbol> I'm running a sanity test now, and if all goes well, will issue a new release shortly.

Thanks, Dave