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Rusty Russell <rusty <at> rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> Russell, I thought about not including any symbol which is not of form
> "[A-Za-z0-9_]+" in kallsyms, for all archs: you are not the only one
> with weird-ass symbols.  Is it that you want these mapping symbols in
> /proc/kallsyms but ignored in backtraces, or you don't need them in
> kallsyms altogether?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.


Mapping symbols will always be encoded with STB_LOCAL and STT_NOTYPE.  I would
have thought it unlikely that the kernel would ever want to report against any
symbol with those attributes and they could all be dropped on that basis.

R.

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