Re: [PATCH 2/3] kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6

[David Daney]

On 06/07/2011 11:12 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 11:08 -0700, David Daney wrote:
>
> > > -static int kprobe_trace_selftest_target(int a1, int a2, int a3,
> > > -					int a4, int a5, int a6)
> > > +/*
> > > + * Can't be static, otherwise gcc might optimize this to
> > > + * not be in the kallsyms table.
> > > + */
> >
> > Could you make it '__used' instead?
>
> I can try, but the problem is not that the function itself is being
> optimized out. It looks like its being turned into anonymous text. That
> is, it optimized out the symbol name, not the code itself.

Really it is no big deal either way.  Just a thought I had.

David Daney
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