Because s390 kernel System.map contains symbols that repeat very often grep -c 'L2^B1$' System.map-2.6.27.7-4-default 276 and the limit for symbols with the same name in get_syment_array() is 200, we filter out that symbols by modifying s390_verify_symbol() and s390x_verify_symbol(). The symbols are not needed in crash anyway, because that are only local labels and not global symbols needed by crash. This is is a workaround. Andreas Krebbel already worked to resolve the problem in binutils which prevents that symbols from being included in System.map. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-01/msg00181.html However, since there are kernels (all 2.6.28 at least) out that contain that problem, we should also workaround that in crash in my opinion. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle(a)suse.de&gt; 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) s390.c | 4 ++++ s390x.c | 4 ++++