* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2022 04:50:17 +0200 > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > The real fix would be to fix kallsyms to not show address of weak > > > functions as the function before it. But that would require adding code in > > > the build to add function size to kallsyms so that it can know when the > > > function ends instead of just using the start of the next known symbol. > > > > Yeah, so I actually have a (prototype...) objtool based kallsyms > > implementation in the (way too large) fast-headers tree that is both faster > > & allows such details in principle: > > Nice. > > Will this work for other architectures too? For those which implement objtool, it certainly should: as we parse through each object file during the build, generating kallsyms data structures is relatively straightforward. Objtool availability is a big gating condition though. :-/ [ ... and still Acked-by on -v4 too. ] Thanks, Ingo
