Hi On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > The scructure was renamed from gate_struct to gate_desc in 2.6.25 kernel > > Tested: works on 3.11 dump > --- > x86_64.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/x86_64.c b/x86_64.c > index 4264bae..3e2d5b4 100755 > --- a/x86_64.c > +++ b/x86_64.c > @@ -298,7 +298,12 @@ x86_64_init(int when) > machdep->machspec->modules_end = > MODULES_END_2_6_31; > } > STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(cpuinfo_x86, "cpuinfo_x86"); > - STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(gate_struct, "gate_struct"); > + if (STRUCT_EXISTS("gate_desc")) { > + STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(gate_struct, "gate_desc"); It probably worth to rename 'gate_struct' variable to 'gate_desc' as well.

> + } else { > + // before 2.6.25 the structure called gate_struct > + STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(gate_struct, "gate_struct"); > + } > STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(e820map, "e820map"); > STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(e820entry, "e820entry"); > MEMBER_OFFSET_INIT(e820map_nr_map, "e820map", "nr_map"); > -- > 1.8.3 >

Hi On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Anatol Pomozov >> <anatol.pomozov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> > The scructure was renamed from gate_struct to gate_desc in 2.6.25 kernel >> > >> > Tested: works on 3.11 dump >> > --- >> > x86_64.c | 7 ++++++- >> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/x86_64.c b/x86_64.c >> > index 4264bae..3e2d5b4 100755 >> > --- a/x86_64.c >> > +++ b/x86_64.c >> > @@ -298,7 +298,12 @@ x86_64_init(int when) >> > machdep->machspec->modules_end = >> > MODULES_END_2_6_31; >> > } >> > STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(cpuinfo_x86, "cpuinfo_x86"); >> > - STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(gate_struct, "gate_struct"); >> > + if (STRUCT_EXISTS("gate_desc")) { >> > + STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(gate_struct, "gate_desc"); >> It probably worth to rename 'gate_struct' variable to 'gate_desc' as well. > > Yeah, but there's almost 800 offset table members stored as it is -- if I kept > adding new ones for each kernel name change, it would add a few hundred more, > and for little benefit. Anyway, it's the command output that's important. Should we at least change user-visible string in symbols.c:9163: fprintf(fp, " gate_struct: %ld\n",