From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, pmarques@grupopie.com, mingo@elte.hu,
srostedt@redhat.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090313130722.1d92ad80.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090313194013.GA23304@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:40:13 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second
> > aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first.
> >
> > Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is
> > guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols
> > defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol.
> >
> > And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided"
> > criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
So... do we need this in 2.6.29?
I'm about to jump on a plane and shall be a bit intermittent for a week.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-13 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 9:37 [PATCH] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-11 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 10:29 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-11 13:05 ` Paulo Marques
2009-03-12 2:43 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-12 15:32 ` Paulo Marques
2009-03-13 7:10 ` [PATCH V3] " Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-13 9:27 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-13 19:25 ` Paulo Marques
2009-03-13 19:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-03-13 20:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-13 20:34 ` Paulo Marques
2009-03-14 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-14 8:57 ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] " Lai Jiangshan
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