From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: victor.kamensky@linaro.org (Victor Kamensky) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:59:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on aarch64 Message-ID: <1421168344-5363-1-git-send-email-victor.kamensky@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Aarch64 ELF files use mapping symbols with special names $x, $d to identify regions of Aarch64 code (see Aarch64 ELF ABI - "ARM IHI 0056B", section "4.5.4 Mapping symbols"). The patch filters out these symbols at load time, similar to "696b97a perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on ARM" changes done for ARM before V8. Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: David Ahern Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Dave Martin --- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index 06fcd1b..1e188dd 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -862,6 +862,14 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, !strcmp(elf_name, "$t")) continue; } + /* Reject Aarch64 ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and + * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile + * output: */ + if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64) { + if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$x") || + !strcmp(elf_name, "$d")) + continue; + } if (runtime_ss->opdsec && sym.st_shndx == runtime_ss->opdidx) { u32 offset = sym.st_value - syms_ss->opdshdr.sh_addr; -- 1.9.3