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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-03-13 03:10:26 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-14 04:55:04 -0400
commitb478b782e110fdb4135caa3062b6d687e989d994 (patch)
tree9951ca2af2675b10ece4405b45257f19d71af6e3 /MAINTAINERS
parente94142a67f8bad494c593f0a07c9fc2fbec98c0e (diff)
kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name
Impact: bugfix, output more reliable symbol lookup result Debug tools(dump_stack(), ftrace...) are like to print out symbols. But it is always print out the first aliased symbol.(Aliased symbols are symbols with the same address), and the first aliased symbol is sometime not proper. # echo function_graph > current_tracer # cat trace ...... 1) 1.923 us | select_nohz_load_balancer(); 1) + 76.692 us | } 1) | default_idle() { 1) ==========> | __irqentry_text_start() { 1) 0.000 us | native_apic_mem_write(); 1) | irq_enter() { 1) 0.000 us | idle_cpu(); 1) | tick_check_idle() { 1) 0.000 us | tick_check_oneshot_broadcast(); 1) | tick_nohz_stop_idle() { ...... It's very embarrassing, it ouputs "__irqentry_text_start()", actually, it should output "smp_apic_timer_interrupt()". (these two symbol are the same address, but "__irqentry_text_start" is deemed to the first aliased symbol by scripts/kallsyms) This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first. Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol. And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided" criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Reviewed-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> LKML-Reference: <49BA06E2.7080807@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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