perf symbols: Generalise the kallsyms parsing routine

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Will be used to find an specific symbol by name on 'perf record'
to support relocation reference symbols to support relocatable
kernels.

Still have to conver the perf trace tools to use it instead of
their current reimplementation.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2010-01-04 16:19:26 -02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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