2012-08-13 18:38:15

by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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Subject: [PATCH 26/38] perf symbols: Correct comment wrt kallsyms loading

From: Cody P Schafer <[email protected]>

In kallsyms_parse() when calling process_symbol() (a callback argument
to kallsyms_parse()), we pass start as both start & end (ie:
start=start, end=start).

In map__process_kallsym_symbol(), the length is calculated as 'end -
start + 1', making the length 1, not 0.

Essentially, start & end define an inclusive range.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Hellsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 42c0d94..9f181a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ int kallsyms__parse(const char *filename, void *arg,

/*
* module symbols are not sorted so we add all
- * symbols with zero length and rely on
+ * symbols, setting length to 1, and rely on
* symbols__fixup_end() to fix it up.
*/
err = process_symbol(arg, symbol_name,
--
1.7.1