Kernel symbol naming rules
Nikolay Borisov
n.borisov.lkml at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 06:59:37 EDT 2016
On 03/24/2016 05:58 PM, Wenda Ni wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When doing insmod, we find our function named "rxe_mem_alloc" is renamed as
> "rxe_mem_alloc.isra.2" in kernel symbol table @ /proc/kallsyms
>
> I am curious why the kernel appends ".isra.2" to the original function.
> Why this happens? What is this for?
>
> Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
This is not kernel specific, rather it comes from the compiler, the
following stackoverflow answer puts it rather nicely:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18907580/what-is-isra-in-the-kernel-thread-dump
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>
> Cheers,
>
> Wenda Ni, Ph.D.
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