How to decode a kernel symbol

[Masami Ichikawa]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Santhosh Kumar
<forwardinglnx at gmail.com> wrote:
> To debug a problem I added some debugs in the kernel code to print the
> address at which a lock is taken, by calling __builtin_return_address(1).
>
> How do I find the symbol (function name) corresponding to the address
> printed ?
>
I recommend to use %pS format.
pr_info("%pS\n", __builtin_return_address(1));

Then, you will see following log.
[ 1501.427439] load_module+0x1dcc/0x25f0

you can find more formats in Documents/printk-formats.txt

> Apologies if this is an often repeated question here. In that case would
> appreciate if someone can point a link covering this.
>
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Cheers,
-- 
Masami Ichikawa