| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 094/113] perf probe powerpc: Ignore SyS symbols irrespective of endianness | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:31:35 +0200 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
[ Upstream commit fa694160cca6dbba17c57dc7efec5f93feaf8795 ]
This makes sure that the SyS symbols are ignored for any powerpc system, not just the big endian ones.
Reported-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: fb6d59423115 ("perf probe ppc: Use the right prefix when ignoring SyS symbols on ppc") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828090848.1914-1-sandipan@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c @@ -27,15 +27,16 @@ void arch__elf_sym_adjust(GElf_Sym *sym) #endif #endif -#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb __maybe_unused) { char *sym = syma->name; +#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 /* Skip over any initial dot */ if (*sym == '.') sym++; +#endif /* Avoid "SyS" kernel syscall aliases */ if (strlen(sym) >= 3 && !strncmp(sym, "SyS", 3)) @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symb return SYMBOL_A; } +#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 /* Allow matching against dot variants */ int arch__compare_symbol_names(const char *namea, const char *nameb) {
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