From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754435Ab1IWONB (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:01 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:39667 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751541Ab1IWONA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf symbols: /proc/kallsyms does not sort module symbols From: Peter Zijlstra To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian , LKML , anton@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com, Robert Richter , Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:12:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20110923141113.GA27519@ghostprotocols.net> References: <20110923141113.GA27519@ghostprotocols.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1316787149.9084.43.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 11:11 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 03:59:33PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu: > > Hi, > > > > What's the status of this patch? > > > > It is not in 3.1.0-rc7. It is needed! > > > > I ran into serious issues (bogus symbols) with a profile where > > kernel modules were stressed and it boiled down to kallsyms__parse() > > being broken because /proc/kallsyms is assumed sorted when it actually > > is NOT. > > Its all here: > > https://github.com/acmel/linux/commits/perf/urgent > > I was waiting for Ingo, Peter, can you take a look and see if you agree > with the patches there then I can ask Linus to pull it, ok? Looks all-right, ship it! :-)