Unkillable processes with 2.2.12,13pre17,14pre1[345],14

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 09:19:51AM +1100, you [Keith Owens] claimed:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:14:25 +0200, 
> Ville Herva <vherva en niksula.hut.fi> wrote:
> >Mike Galbraith wrote
> >> To find out where this address is at, use ksymoops to generate
> >> a System.map which includes module symbols.
> >> ksymoops -s /tmp/map < /dev/null 
> >
> >ksymoops gave ~700 warnings like this:
> >
> >Warning: ksyms_base symbol vsprintf_Rsmp_13d9cea7 not found in System.map.
> 
> You have an old ksymoops that does not handle _Rsmp.  Get the latest
> from ftp://ftp.**.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.3, **
> is your nearest country code that has a kernel.org mirror.

Okay, thanks. With the newest ksymoops these warnings are gone.

> >and a couple of these:
> >
> >Warning in compare_ksyms_lsmod, module es1370 is in lsmod but not in
> >ksyms, probably no symbols exported
> 
> You have an old modutils that does not record symbols for all modules.
> Latest is ftp://ftp.**.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3

I grabbed the newest but these warnings persisted:

Warning (compare_ksyms_lsmod): module es1370 is in lsmod but not in ksyms,
probably no symbols exported
Warning (compare_ksyms_lsmod): module i2c-piix4 is in lsmod but not in
ksyms, probably no symbols exported
Warning (compare_ksyms_lsmod): module reiserfs is in lsmod but not in
ksyms, probably no symbols exported
Warning (compare_ksyms_lsmod): module smbfs is in lsmod but not in ksyms,
probably no symbols exported
Warning (compare_ksyms_lsmod): module w83781d is in lsmod but not in
ksyms, probably no symbols exported

Doesn't that mean that lsmod lists those (as it certainly does), but
there are no symbols present for them in /proc/ksyms? Browsing the
ksymoops docs, I gather that modules that do not export any symbols are
not listed at all by ksymoops. In /proc/ksyms there where no lines for the
above modules, as there were for others.

Anyway, I'm making this wild assumption that while es1370 and smbfs are
the most interesting modules (and not in the ksymoops listing) it is not
likely that the address C5D28000 would be in one of their symbols. Or is
it just coinsidence that all the symbols of the kernel modules start with
c8a (from c8a5b04c to c8a909a4)?


(alt-sysrq-t output:)

                 PC
xmms      70 R C5D28000     0   982      1          1319  1148
   sig: 1 0000000000004103 0000000080000000 : X

 
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