Module needs to lookup its own symbols at runtime.

[devendra.aaru]

user space tool to look up symbol name is very easier than kernel
module, just grep in /proc/kallsyms will be sufficient

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Neil Baylis <neil.baylis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a kernel loadable module that needs to be able to lookup its own
> symbols at runtime. I.e., given a string that represents the name of the
> symbol, the module needs to find the address. Preferably, this should work
> for symbols that are not marked 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' as well as those that are. I
> used to be able to do this by calling parse_symbol() that's part of kdb, but
> now my module is required to run without depending on kdb.
>
> Is there an API that provides this functionality? Otherwise, any hints about
> how to proceed would be helpful.
>
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