[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 1/5] [4.2-stable only] Revert "perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test"

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Jul 08 2016 - 13:07:39 EST


4.2.8-ckt13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592552

This reverts commit 159436d273a248e99f05dcd15f39e2c6bdb02652.

Causes an FTBS.

tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c: In function 'test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms':
tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c:64:6: error: implicit declaration of function '__machine__load_kallsyms' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
^
tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c:64:2: error: nested extern declaration of '__machine__load_kallsyms' [-Werror=nested-externs]
if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
index 8de34ea..b34c5fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
@@ -54,14 +54,8 @@ int test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms(void)
* Step 3:
*
* Load and split /proc/kallsyms into multiple maps, one per module.
- * Do not use kcore, as this test was designed before kcore support
- * and has parts that only make sense if using the non-kcore code.
- * XXX: extend it to stress the kcorre code as well, hint: the list
- * of modules extracted from /proc/kcore, in its current form, can't
- * be compacted against the list of modules found in the "vmlinux"
- * code and with the one got from /proc/modules from the "kallsyms" code.
*/
- if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
+ if (machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, NULL) <= 0) {
pr_debug("dso__load_kallsyms ");
goto out;
}
--
2.7.4