linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf auxtrace: Alter addr_filter__entire

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:17:05 +0200
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf auxtrace: Alter addr_filter__entire_dso() to work if
 there are no symbols

On 27/11/18 2:42 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>> addr_filter__entire_dso() uses the first and last symbols from a dso,
>> and so does not work when there are no symbols.  Alter it to filter the
>> whole file instead.
> 
> I'm splitting this patch into a first prep one that renames and exports
> the static function dso__data_file_size() and a second that does what
> this commig log message states.
> 
> The reason is that sometimes we find out that the main part of the patch
> is wrong and we then decide to revert the patch, only to realize that
> the exported function is by that time already used elsewhere.

Thanks for looking at this, but did it get lost?  I don't see it in your tree.