From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264790AbUEKPn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 11:43:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264798AbUEKPn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 11:43:58 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:943 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264790AbUEKPn4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 11:43:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:35:04 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Andi Kleen 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 Message-Id: <20040511083504.16686244.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040511080843.GB8751@colin2.muc.de> References: <1084252135.31802.312.camel@bach> <20040511080843.GB8751@colin2.muc.de> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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