linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 11/18] gendwarfksyms: Add symtypes output

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Message-ID: <32fdbc0a-ba70-4d99-93c8-15ec8ebe6f70@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:54:07 +0100
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
 Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>,
 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, Neal Gompa <neal@...pa.dev>,
 Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>, Janne Grunau <j@...nau.net>,
 Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Asahi Linux <asahi@...ts.linux.dev>,
 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
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 rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/18] gendwarfksyms: Add symtypes output

On 11/21/24 21:42, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Add support for producing genksyms-style symtypes files. Process
> die_map to find the longest expansions for each type, and use symtypes
> references in type definitions. The basic file format is similar to
> genksyms, with two notable exceptions:
> 
>   1. Type names with spaces (common with Rust) in references are
>      wrapped in single quotes. E.g.:
> 
>      s#'core::result::Result<u8, core::num::error::ParseIntError>'
> 
>   2. The actual type definition is the simple parsed DWARF format we
>      output with --dump-dies, not the preprocessed C-style format
>      genksyms produces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Petr