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@@ -24,6 +24,22 @@ preemption disabled). This will allow begin/end probes to be longer, to support generating longer reports. +- The numeric forms of kernel.statement() and kernel.function() probe points + are now interpreted as relocatable values - treated as relative to the + _stext symbol in that kernel binary. Since some modern kernel images + are relocated to a different virtual address at startup, such addresses + may shift up or down when actually inserted into a running kernel. + + kernel.statement(0xdeadbeef): validated, interpreted relative to _stext, + may map to 0xceadbeef at run time. + + In order to specify unrelocated addresses, use the new ".absolute" + probe point suffix for such numeric addresses. These are only + allowed in guru mode, and provide access to no $target variables. + They don't use debugging information at all, actually. + + kernel.statement(0xfeedface).absolute: raw, unvalidated, guru mode only + * What's new since version 0.5.10? - Offline processing of debugging information, enabling general |