Messages in this thread | | | From | Sonny Rao <> | Date | Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:56:40 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC][PATCH] Remove /proc/kallsyms size verification check in perf |
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>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> 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)
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