Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
10 Jan 2003 12:15:17 -0500


On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:34, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Indeed! I think that was Andi volunteering :-}
> But we should let rml defend his wchan.

Well, of course I want to keep it - but I am biased :)

I think its a simple export that gives us a neat feature. Additionally,
from the procps perspective, it saves us from having to parse System.map
for each process. In fact, it means we do not need a System.map at all
for any procps functionality.

I guess Linus at least mildly liked it too, since he merged it.

But if its such a performance crippling item perhaps it does need to be
removed (or somehow restricted).

I do agree that, if possible, wchan should be kept simple... so, is
everyone else for the removal of /proc/pid/wchan ? :-(

Robert Love

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