Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:37:11 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: ccache@lists.samba.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:28:10PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >	b) is there any reason why we can't copy symbol table out of module
> >ourselves (instead of setting SHF_ALLOC on it) and trim the crap out of
> >it?  Note that __crc_... is not the only junk in there - you don't need
> >(or want) to keep the things like undefs for /proc/kallsyms purposes.
> >And modules *using* an exported symbol are more common that modules exporting
> >one...  Why not copy it at add_kallsyms() time, skipping the junk we don't
> >want anyway?
> 
> Would certainly be doable, but would seem reasonable only if it's a small
> set of easily recognizable symbols. If you look at scripts/strip-symbols,
> you may agree that it's better to do this at build time...

I will not.  Undefined ones are far more common than any of those...
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