From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754410Ab1IWOLi (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:11:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62367 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662Ab1IWOLh (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:11:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:11:13 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Stephane Eranian Cc: LKML , anton@samba.org, Peter Zijlstra , mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com, Robert Richter , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf symbols: /proc/kallsyms does not sort module symbols Message-ID: <20110923141113.GA27519@ghostprotocols.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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