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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: david.ahern@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: maps mismatch in /proc/kcore for sparc
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:43:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150318.154359.1325469409095627387.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5509AE36.8040902@oracle.com>

From: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:56:22 -0600

> I am trying to understand why the perf tool on sparc fails to convert
> kernel symbols when /proc/kcore is used. I have instrumented perf to
> the point I can see that it drops symbols from kallsyms because it
> cannot find a corresponding map when the kernel maps are created based
> on parsing /proc/kcore.

I'm looking into this, I think we need to set ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT in
arch/sparc/Kconfig

I have an even worse problem on my T4 system, /proc/kcore is zero
length.  Looking into that now as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-18 16:56 maps mismatch in /proc/kcore for sparc David Ahern
2015-03-18 19:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-03-18 19:57   ` David Ahern
2015-03-18 20:14     ` David Miller
2015-03-18 21:22       ` David Ahern

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