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Depending on how vmlinux.lds is written, _etext might be the very first
data symbol instead of the very last text symbol.
Don't require it to be a text symbol, accept any symbol type.
Comitter notes:
See the first Link for further discussion, but it all boils down to
this:
---
# grep -e _stext -e _etext -e _edata /proc/kallsyms
c0000000 T _stext
c08b8000 D _etext
So there is no _edata and _etext is not text
$ ppc-linux-objdump -x vmlinux | grep -e _stext -e _etext -e _edata
c0000000 g .head.text 00000000 _stext
c08b8000 g .rodata 00000000 _etext
c1378000 g .sbss 00000000 _edata
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Fixes: ed9adb2035 ("perf machine: Read also the end of the kernel")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b3ee1994d95257cb7f2de037c5030ba7d1bed404.1736327613.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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