Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 20:00:51 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 00:27 +0100, pmarques@grupopie.com wrote:
> You can try the very crude (but effective) way to check if this is your problem > or not. Go to scripts/kallsyms.c and change: > > #define WORKING_SET 1024 > > to: > > #define WORKING_SET 65536 >
Yep, that did the trick. Thanks. And just to make sure, I put it back to 1024, recompiled, and got the error again.
> This will force kallsyms to use *all* the symbols for the compression, and the > size of the result won't be affected by the symbol positions. > > Don't forget to turn off KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS to test this. > > If this turns out to be the problem _again_, I'll post a patch to fix this for > good by storing the token data from the first pass and use it on the second > pass. This will not only speed up compression, it will also guarantee that this > kind of problems will never bite us again.
Your patch sounds too good to not be included even if this wasn't the case. How come it hasn't been applied before?
-- Steve
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