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List:       linux-kbuild
Subject:    Re: Inconsistent kallsyms data on ARM.
From:       Jon Masters <jonathan () jonmasters ! org>
Date:       2012-03-26 13:07:44
Message-ID: 4F706A20.6020302 () jonmasters ! org
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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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