[RFC PATCH] kernel/kallsyms.c: only show legal kernel symbol

[Ming Lei]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was imprecise.  I was referring to the kernel's kallsyms
> tables produced by scripts/kallsyms.c.  This patch left them in the
> the kallsyms tables and filtered them out from /proc/kallsyms.

Yes, but it isn't easy to do it by script/kallsyms.c , and IMO, it should
be correct to hide them for user space but keep them in kallsyms table.

>
> It's weird that cpu_v7_suspend_size appeared above, since kallsyms
> should filter out 'A' symbols already.

Sorry, the 'A' symbol is a mistake, but the others do exist in /proc/kallsyms.


Thanks,
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Ming Lei