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    SubjectRe: CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
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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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