Hi -
> > We have relocated based on sections, not some subset of function
> > symbols accessible that way, partly because DWARF line- and DIE- based
> > probes can map to addresses some way away from function symbols, into
> > function interiors, or cloned/moved bits of optimized code. It would
> > take some work to prove that function-symbol based heuristic
> > arithmetic would have just as much reach.
>
> Interesting. Do you have an example handy?
No, I'm afraid I don't have one that I know cannot possibly be
expressed by reference to a function symbol only. I'd look at
systemtap (4.3) probe point lists like:
% stap -vL 'kernel.statement("*@kernel/*verif*.c:*")'
% stap -vL 'module("amdgpu").statement("*@*execution*.c:*")'
which give an impression of computed PC addresses.
> It seems like something like that would reference the enclosing
> section, which means we can't just leave them out of the sysfs
> list... (but if such things never happen in the function-sections,
> then we *can* remove them...)
I'm not sure we can easily prove they can never happen there.
- FChE
