From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, akpm@osdl.org, ak@muc.de,
sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sort kallsyms in name order: kernel shrinks by 30k
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:35:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511083504.16686244.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511080843.GB8751@colin2.muc.de>
On 11 May 2004 10:08:43 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:
| On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:08:55PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
| > Admittedly, anyone who sets CONFIG_KALLSYMS doesn't care about space,
| > it's a fairly trivial change.
|
| As long as nobody does binary search it's good. Wonder why I did not
| have this idea already with the original stem compression change ;-)
My (limited) experience is that things reading /proc/kallsyms want
to see it in sorted address order, not in sorted name order.
--
~Randy
(Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature) -- akpm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 5:08 Rusty Russell
2004-05-11 5:23 ` Keith Owens
2004-05-11 8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-11 15:35 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-05-11 23:16 ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-12 1:47 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-12 6:00 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-13 0:05 Albert Cahalan
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