[ oprofile-Bugs-1623934 ] allow use of System.map instead of vmlinux

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Bugs item #1623934, was opened at 2006-12-28 23:02
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Brian Eaton (brianeaton)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: allow use of System.map instead of vmlinux

Initial Comment:
It would be nice if oprofile supported the use of System.map files for symbol resolution as an alternative to vmlinux files, as discussed here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=oprofile-list&m=116069247330357&w=2

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=oprofile-list&m=115619608118310&w=2

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=oprofile-list&m=115124224324015&w=2

The attached patch applies against CVS as of 2006/12/28.

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>Comment By: Brian Eaton (brianeaton)
Date: 2006-12-28 23:04

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Thanks to Dave Enholm for suggestions to clean up the opcontrol changes
and a tip to make this (hopefully) work on arm/xscale.

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