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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix symbol resolution on old ppc64 ABI
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Hi Ingo,

> > It would cover most cases. There would be an issue with functions 
> > that are less than 24 bytes in length (ie 6 instructions). Tiny 
> > functions are probably rare enough that we can live with it.
> 
> Do such tiny functions get packed tightly, below 24 bytes? Another 
> sanitization pass could solve that issue, to trim partially 
> overlapping symbol regions, right?

That would work I think. Should I cook up a patch?

Anton