Re: arm: Inconsistent kallsyms data

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Imre Deak wrote:
Hi,

building 2.6.12-rc4 results in "Inconsistent kallsyms data". Setting
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=y doesn't help.

I made a diff of .tmp_kallsyms[12].S after converting them to human
readable form with kallsyms_uncompress.pl .

From the diff, I can see the problem is that "__bss_start" changes position with "_edata" from the first to the second pass.

If your read my post from yesterday "Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc4" (not a very descriptive subject), I explain there why this is a problem.

Sam, from looking at your patch, it seems that the patch shouldn't affect these particular symbols. Am I correct?

Maybe we really need the more robust fix to kallsyms, so that this sort of thing doesn't bite us in the future, no matter what symbols change position.

I noticed that the error is triggered by an __initdata definition. It is
accessed only from an __init function, so that's ok I think. Removing
the __initdata attribute gets rid of the error message.

This is just a "tape over" solution that makes the symbols change positions, so that maybe these 2 symbols don't get selected for sampling.

Let me know if you need more data to track the problem.

There is a simple workaround that is to increase the WORKING_SET define in scripts/kallsyms.c to something like 65536. This will include every symbol in the token table calculation, so that even if symbol position changes, the token table should be the same.

I tested this with a configuration I have here that had a similar problem and it indeed worked as expected.

The problem with this approach is that it takes longer to calculate the token table. (~3secs on my P4 2.8GHz, 11300 symbols)

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