[PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Tidy up symbol end fixup (v3)

[Ian Rogers]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 5:40 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This work is a follow-up of Ian's previous one at
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220412154817.2728324-1-irogers@google.com/
>
> Fixing up more symbol ends as introduced in:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220317135536.805-1-mpetlan@redhat.com/
>
> it caused perf annotate to run into memory limits - every symbol holds
> all the disassembled code in the annotation, and so making symbols
> ends further away dramatically increased memory usage (40MB to >1GB).
>
> Modify the symbol end fixup logic so that special kernel cases aren't
> applied in the common case.
>
> v3 changes)
>  * rename is_kernel to is_kallsyms
>  * move the logic to generic function
>  * remove arch-specific functions
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung

Thanks Namhyung! The series:

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>

> Namhyung Kim (3):
>   perf symbol: Pass is_kallsyms to symbols__fixup_end()
>   perf symbol: Update symbols__fixup_end()
>   perf symbol: Remove arch__symbols__fixup_end()
>
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c   | 21 ---------------
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build     |  1 -
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c | 25 -----------------
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/machine.c    | 16 -----------
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c           |  2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c               | 37 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h               |  3 +--
>  7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c
>
>
> base-commit: 41204da4c16071be9090940b18f566832d46becc
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