Re: Reading VM symbols in oprofile

[Brian E. <eat...@gm...>]

On 8/22/06, John Levon <le...@mo...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Brian Eaton wrote:
>
> > On 8/21/06, Hussam Mousa <hus...@cs...> wrote:
> > >For the first set of symbols (the VM symbols) I was thinking of using an
> > >extension analogues to the Linux System.map extension contributed by
> > >Brian Eaton
> > >http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=21508719&forum_id=3252
> >
> > John - while you are looking at this thread, I would like your opinion
> > on whether the System.map work is worth pursuing.  If I clean that
> > code up a bit (the clean up points are listed in my original note),
> > would it be considered for inclusion in oprofile?
>
> Maybe. I'm a bit nervous about some "random file" being used for looking
> up critical data, and it seems more of a workaround for the stupid way
> red hat's debug kernel RPM is done than anything else...
>
> regards
> john
>