kallsyms: skip kernel symbols when lookup in module

Commit Message

Cheng Renquan Jan. 7, 2010, 6:43 a.m. UTC

None

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 8e5288a..bb9fdc5 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -173,12 +173,16 @@  unsigned long kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
 	unsigned long i;
 	unsigned int off;
 
-	for (i = 0, off = 0; i < kallsyms_num_syms; i++) {
-		off = kallsyms_expand_symbol(off, namebuf);
+	/* if a colon ':' found, skip the heavy kernel symbols */
+	if (strchr(name, ':') == NULL) {
+		for (i = 0, off = 0; i < kallsyms_num_syms; i++) {
+			off = kallsyms_expand_symbol(off, namebuf);
 
-		if (strcmp(namebuf, name) == 0)
-			return kallsyms_addresses[i];
+			if (strcmp(namebuf, name) == 0)
+				return kallsyms_addresses[i];
+		}
 	}
+
 	return module_kallsyms_lookup_name(name);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kallsyms_lookup_name);