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Message-ID: <20140121141621.GC4559@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:16:21 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Gaurav Jain <gjain@...com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix JIT profiling on heap


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net> wrote:

> > Right.  But in this case we cannot determine whether a symbol in 
> > the /tmp/perf-... file is a function or variable.
> 
> That is why we would then need to have separate /tmp/perf-... files, 
> disambiguated by an extension, one for text addresses, another for 
> data ones.
> 
> Or change the format to match /proc/kallsyms, which probably is what 
> we should've done from day one...

Yeah. Using the same format would be lovely. The parser could try to 
detect the new one and could fall back to the old format?

> Detecting the format change would be trivial, as we would find 3 
> tokens in the new format, instead of the current 2.

Yeah!

Thanks,

	Ingo
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