Patch "perf symbols: Check symbol_conf.allow_aliases for kallsyms loading too" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf symbols: Check symbol_conf.allow_aliases for kallsyms loading too

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-symbols-check-symbol_conf.allow_aliases-for-kallsyms-loading-too.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c97b40e4d15f13a36cd037d598e45cbe9e1e5757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:56:06 -0300
Subject: perf symbols: Check symbol_conf.allow_aliases for kallsyms loading too

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

commit c97b40e4d15f13a36cd037d598e45cbe9e1e5757 upstream.

We can allow aliases to be kept, but we were checking this just when
loading vmlinux files, be consistent, do it for any symbol table loading
code that calls symbol__fixup_duplicate() by making this function check
.allow_aliases instead.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 680d926a8cb0 ("perf symbols: Allow symbol alias when loading map for symbol name")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z0avp0s6cfjckc4xj3pdfjdz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c |    3 +--
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c     |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -1113,8 +1113,7 @@ new_symbol:
 	 * For misannotated, zeroed, ASM function sizes.
 	 */
 	if (nr > 0) {
-		if (!symbol_conf.allow_aliases)
-			symbols__fixup_duplicate(&dso->symbols[map->type]);
+		symbols__fixup_duplicate(&dso->symbols[map->type]);
 		symbols__fixup_end(&dso->symbols[map->type]);
 		if (kmap) {
 			/*
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ void symbols__fixup_duplicate(struct rb_
 	struct rb_node *nd;
 	struct symbol *curr, *next;
 
+	if (symbol_conf.allow_aliases)
+		return;
+
 	nd = rb_first(symbols);
 
 	while (nd) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from acme@redhat.com are

queue-4.8/perf-ui-stdio-always-reset-output-width-for-hierarchy.patch
queue-4.8/perf-ui-tui-reset-output-width-for-hierarchy.patch
queue-4.8/perf-powerpc-fix-build-test-failure.patch
queue-4.8/perf-data-fix-building-in-32-bit-platform-with-libbabeltrace.patch
queue-4.8/perf-hists-browser-fix-event-group-display.patch
queue-4.8/perf-symbols-check-symbol_conf.allow_aliases-for-kallsyms-loading-too.patch
queue-4.8/perf-symbols-fixup-symbol-sizes-before-picking-best-ones.patch