Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:53:35 +0530
From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
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        Naren A Devaiah <naren.devaiah@in.ibm.com>,
        Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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        "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 2.6.35-rc6-tip 12/14]  perf: Add third parameter to
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> Em Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:41:19PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju escreveu:
> > GElf_Sym for a symbol is needed to filter out based on binding,
> > type, value. This will be needed to list only global binding
> > functions when listing functions from  perf probe.
> 
> Humm, I think it is better to store the symbol binding in struct symbol,
> so that we can have the full symtab and then, on a particular routine,
> decide wheter we should use it or not.
> 
> I'll cook up a patch now.

Okay, Please keep me in loop on that patch so that I can update this
patch accordingly.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar
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