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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:19:50 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:13:48PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:12:12 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>  said:
> > 
> > > So the end-result of the discussion is, "What should really happen here?"
> > > and "What, if anything, do you want me to do?"
> > 
> > IMHO best would be to get rid of /proc/*/wchan and keep the kallsyms 
> > lookup slow, simple and stupid.
> 
> And replace the current /proc/*/wchan functionality with what?

Ctrl-Rollen (or whatever the key is called on your keyboard) on the console,
like in all previous linux releases.

Note /proc/*/wchan is not in 2.4.

Also you still have WCHAN in ps, just not a full backtrace.

-Andi
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