Subject: Re: @booted_kernel magic symlink?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/27/2006 15:23:39
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:52:49PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > But observe that to DTRT here is actually hard.  You want the name of
> > the kernel that was running.  You would find that name in the dump.
> > But to know the offset in the dump to find the name, you need the
> > nlist from the kernel you are looking for.

It's not nearly that bad.  We could easily choose to dump the ksyms
table, or some pointers to it, in the dump header, so that we can find
things without having to look at the kernel image.