Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:13:48PM -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:12:12 +0100, Andi Kleen <[e-mail]>  said:
> > 
> > > So the end-result of the discussion is, "What should really happen here?"
> > > and "What, if anything, do you want me to do?"
> > 
> > IMHO best would be to get rid of /proc/*/wchan and keep the kallsyms 
> > lookup slow, simple and stupid.
> 
> And replace the current /proc/*/wchan functionality with what?

Ctrl-Rollen (or whatever the key is called on your keyboard) on the console,
like in all previous linux releases.

Note /proc/*/wchan is not in 2.4.

Also you still have WCHAN in ps, just not a full backtrace.

-Andi