Re: [PATCH 14/14] scripts/sorttable: ftrace: Do not add weak functions to available_filter_functions

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 20:48:14 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> *sigh*.. can we please just either add the 'hole' symbols in symtab, or
> fix symtab to have entry size?
> 
> You're just fixing your one problem and leaving everybody else that has
> extra data inside the dead weak things up a creek :/
> 
> Eg. if might make sense to also ignore alternative / static_branch /
> static_call patching for such 'dead' code. Yes, that's not an immediate
> problem atm, but just fixing __mcount_loc seems very short sighted.

Read my reply to the email that I forgot to add to the cover letter (but
mention in the last patch). Fixing kallsyms does not remove the place
holders in the available_filter_functions. This has nothing to do with
kallsyms. I need to remove the fentry/mcount references in the mcount_loc
section.

The kallsyms is a completely different issue.

-- Steve