Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:40:13 +0100
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So... do we need this in 2.6.29?

no. This got raised in the context of new tracing changes queued 
up for 2.6.30.

	Ingo
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