4.9-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 @@ -21,15 +21,16 @@ bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr
#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)) @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ 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) {