Inconsistent kallsyms data on ARM.
Jon Masters
jonathan at jonmasters.org
Mon Mar 26 09:07:44 EDT 2012
On 03/26/2012 03:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:59:44PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>> As to longer term, I am happy to work up something that will spot this
>> particular kind of failure (symbol changes type) and output something
>> more useful during the kallsyms generation if you would like.
>>
>> Are you planning to pull in either of the fixes you mention?
>
> I'm not, because those are all sub-optimal - I don't see why we should
> bloat the kernel image just for the sake of working around kallsyms.
>
> The best I've come up with so far which avoids that is to force
> KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS to always be set on ARM.
Or just increasing the base number of kallsyms runs on ARM? That way,
you can have a real extra extra pass in the case of something else :)
Jon.
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