linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 1/5] [4.2-stable only] Revert "perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test"

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Date:	Fri,  8 Jul 2016 10:07:00 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 1/5] [4.2-stable only] Revert "perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test"

4.2.8-ckt13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592552

This reverts commit 159436d273a248e99f05dcd15f39e2c6bdb02652.

Causes an FTBS.

tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c: In function 'test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms':
tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c:64:6: error: implicit declaration of function '__machine__load_kallsyms' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
      ^
tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c:64:2: error: nested extern declaration of '__machine__load_kallsyms' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
  ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
index 8de34ea..b34c5fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
@@ -54,14 +54,8 @@ int test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms(void)
 	 * Step 3:
 	 *
 	 * Load and split /proc/kallsyms into multiple maps, one per module.
-	 * Do not use kcore, as this test was designed before kcore support
-	 * and has parts that only make sense if using the non-kcore code.
-	 * XXX: extend it to stress the kcorre code as well, hint: the list
-	 * of modules extracted from /proc/kcore, in its current form, can't
-	 * be compacted against the list of modules found in the "vmlinux"
-	 * code and with the one got from /proc/modules from the "kallsyms" code.
 	 */
-	if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
+	if (machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, NULL) <= 0) {
 		pr_debug("dso__load_kallsyms ");
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
2.7.4