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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add kallsyms_lookup() result cache
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On Friday, June 18, 2004 7:56 pm, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Sure, but that would be a change in behavior.  It's arguably the right
> > thing to do though.
>
> Change what behaviour? I argue that doing it in the kernel is the wrong
> thing.

/proc/<pid>/wchan reports the function name as a string.  You're arguing that 
doing that in the kernel is the wrong thing to do, right?  If so, it would 
make sense to change its behavior.  Either way, I guess we can fix top to 
use /proc/<pid>/stat instead, and lookup symbols in an external System.map 
file.

Jesse
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