perf probe powerpc: Ignore SyS symbols irrespective of endianness
authorSandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:08:48 +0000 (14:38 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:54:23 +0000 (08:54 +0200)
[ 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

index 20e7d74d86cd16e86c8fd60e5839222d476f6409..10a44e946f7734b911ed00f74184f754b09d56ba 100644 (file)
@@ -22,15 +22,16 @@ bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr 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))
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma,
        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)
 {