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authorCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-08-10 18:22:57 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-08-13 13:31:44 -0400
commitb68e2f919c6d3a0422239c98673c35ff503e52fb (patch)
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parent21ea4539b4d1b26de7f2eb227b5d1a092b32cc19 (diff)
perf symbols: Introduce symsrc structure.
Factors opening of certain sections & tracking certain elf info into an external structure. The goal here is to keep multiple elfs (and their looked up sections/indexes) around during the symbol generation process (in dso__load()). We need this to properly resolve symbols on PPC due to the use of function descriptors & the .opd section (ie: symbols which are functions don't point to their actual location, they point to their function descriptor in .opd which contains their actual location. It would be possible to just keep the (Elf *) around, but then we'd end up with duplicate code for looking up the same sections and checking for the existence of an important section wouldn't be as clean (and we need to keep the Elf stuff confined to symtab-elf.c). Utilized by the later patch "perf symbols: Use both runtime and debug images" Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-12-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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