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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

by Greg Kroah-Hartman
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Analysis Targets

These targets are good for trying to find problem code in the kernel. It's a good idea to create a stack space list when creating new code to determine that your changes are not taking up too much kernel stack space. The namespacecheck target is useful for determining whether your changes can safely add its symbols to the kernel's global namespace.

Table 10-9. Analysis targets

Target

Description

checkstack

Generate a list of the functions that use the most of the kernel stack space.

namespacecheck

Generate a list of all of the kernel symbols and their namespaces. This will be a large list.

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