[Crash-utility] [PATCH]: symbol filtering

Hi, For x86, crash avoids storing any '__crc_*' symbols. It should do the same for ARM, right? Credit goes to Rabin Vincent for this patch, unless you don't like it, in which case you can blame me. Another thing. The ARM kernel potentially includes a symbol 'PRRR' with a value of 0xff0a81a8, defined in arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S. The problem with this is that it's the symbol which ends up st->symtable[st->symcnt-1] instead of '_end' which means a lot of values will pass this check in in_ksymbol_range(): if ((value >= st->symtable[0].value) && (value <= st->symtable[st->symcnt-1].value)) { if ((st->flags & PERCPU_SYMS) && (value < st->first_ksymbol)) return FALSE; else return TRUE; } How would you prefer dealing with this? How about excluding any symbols with values > '_end'? A KSYMS_END flag could be added to the machdep->flags. Or just unsetting KSYM_START when '_end' is encountered in verify_symbol(). Regards, Per