linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/16] perf symbol: correct comment wrt kallsyms loading

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Date:	Thu,  9 Aug 2012 15:18:26 -0700
From:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Matt Hellsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	David Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/16] perf symbol: correct comment wrt kallsyms loading

In kallsyms_parse() when calling process_symbol() (a callback argument
to kallsyms_parse()), we pass start as both start & end (ie:
start=start, end=start).

In map__process_kallsym_symbol(), the length is calculated as 'end - start + 1',
making the length 1, not 0.

Essentially, start & end define an inclusive range.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 07e7bd6..df4736d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ int kallsyms__parse(const char *filename, void *arg,
 
 		/*
 		 * module symbols are not sorted so we add all
-		 * symbols with zero length and rely on
+		 * symbols, setting length to 1, and rely on
 		 * symbols__fixup_end() to fix it up.
 		 */
 		err = process_symbol(arg, symbol_name,
-- 
1.7.11.3

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