Re: [PATCH] [RFC][PATCH] Remove /proc/kallsyms size verificationcheck in perf

[Sonny Rao]

>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The check was failing when I was trying to profile system startup
> because the modules were being loaded and causing the size of
> kallsyms to change.  At first I changed the check to simply make
> sure the size of kallsyms increased, but that wouldn't cover the
> case of a module getting removed (or some removed and larger ones
> loaded).  I can't see any purpose to checking the size
> right after reading it either, so remove the check altogether.

Ignore this patch; I just realized it is actually copying all of
kallsyms into the
trace output file.  I'll have to do something a bit smarter to fix
this problem --
I'll post a new patch when it's ready (and tested)

Sonny
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