Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Allow vmlinux to fallback to kallsyms on NO_LIBELF=1

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:24:38PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > What I was saying, why not have a util/symbol.c change that disregards
> > all DSOs with 0 symbols in.
> 
> The util/symbol.c doesn't need this because it can handle vmlinux
> reliably.  So after reading symbol table, it'll use the dso if it
> actually contains symbols or fallback to next dso if it has 0 symbols.
> IOW it already disregards all dsos with 0 symbols in.

Well, it could not could it.. it readily proceeded with 0 symbols in my
case. It did _not_ fallback to kallsyms.
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