Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf symbols: /proc/kallsyms does not sort modulesymbols

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Sep 23 2011 - 10:11:38 EST


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?

- Arnaldo
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