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From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent kallsyms data on ARM.
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:07:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F706A20.6020302@jonmasters.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120326073704.GH5611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 03/26/2012 03:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:59:44PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>> As to longer term, I am happy to work up something that will spot this
>> particular kind of failure (symbol changes type) and output something
>> more useful during the kallsyms generation if you would like.
>>
>> Are you planning to pull in either of the fixes you mention?
> 
> I'm not, because those are all sub-optimal - I don't see why we should
> bloat the kernel image just for the sake of working around kallsyms.
> 
> The best I've come up with so far which avoids that is to force
> KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS to always be set on ARM.

Or just increasing the base number of kallsyms runs on ARM? That way,
you can have a real extra extra pass in the case of something else :)

Jon.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-26 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 22:00 Inconsistent kallsyms data on ARM Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-14 13:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-25 11:20   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-25 23:59     ` Jon Masters
2012-03-26  7:37       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-26  7:45         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2012-03-26  8:39           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-26 13:07         ` Jon Masters [this message]

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