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    perf symbols: Introduce symsrc structure. · b68e2f91
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    Factors opening of certain sections & tracking certain elf info into an
    external structure.
    
    The goal here is to keep multiple elfs (and their looked up
    sections/indexes) around during the symbol generation process (in
    dso__load()).
    
    We need this to properly resolve symbols on PPC due to the use of
    function descriptors & the .opd section (ie: symbols which are functions
    don't point to their actual location, they point to their function
    descriptor in .opd which contains their actual location.
    
    It would be possible to just keep the (Elf *) around, but then we'd end
    up with duplicate code for looking up the same sections and checking for
    the existence of an important section wouldn't be as clean (and we need
    to keep the Elf stuff confined to symtab-elf.c).
    
    Utilized by the later patch
    "perf symbols: Use both runtime and debug images"
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-12-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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