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The test needs a struct machine and creates one for the current host,
but a side-effect is that struct machine has set up kernel maps
including module maps.
If the 'Symbols' test --dso option specifies a current kernel module,
it will already be present as a kernel dso, and a map with kmaps needs
to be used otherwise there will be a segfault - see below.
For that case, find the existing map and use that. In that case also,
the dso is split by section into multiple dsos, so test those dsos
also. That in turn, shows up that those dsos have not had overlapping
symbols removed, so the test fails.
Example:
Before:
$ perf test -F -v Symbols --dso /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
70: Symbols :
--- start ---
Testing /lib/modules/6.7.2-local/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
After:
$ perf test -F -v Symbols --dso /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
70: Symbols :
--- start ---
Testing /lib/modules/6.7.2-local/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
Overlapping symbols:
41d30-41fbb l vmx_init
41d30-41fbb g init_module
---- end ----
Symbols: FAILED!
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131192416.16387-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.