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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 08:05:57 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting empty callchain from perf_callchain_kernel()
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On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:53:19AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:24:13AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > Here's the latest version which should fix it in all cases (based on
> > tip/master):
> > 
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux.git/commit/?h=bpf-orc-fix
> 
> That patch suffers an inconsitency, the comment states:
> 
>   'if they have "jump_table" in the name'
> 
> while the actual code implements:
> 
>   'if the name starts with "jump_table"'
> 
> Other than that, I suppose that works just fine ;-)

The thing is, gcc converts a static local variable named "jump_table" to
an ELF symbol with a numbered suffix, something like "jump_table.12345".
But yeah I should at least clarify that in the comment.

-- 
Josh