Re: [PATCHv6 2.6.35-rc3-tip 10/12] perf: Dont adjust symbols onname lookup

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jun 28 2010 - 09:51:48 EST


Em Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:29:41AM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju escreveu:
>
> perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup
>
> Adjusting symbols is not needed if we are searching by name even
> if the symbols correspond to user space objects.
> Infact if we adjust and search symbols by name, we get incorrect
> results.

I'll review this, but it would be nice to explain why we get incorrect
results, as we may be just fixing a symptom of some other problem.

- Arnaldo
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