From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Naveen N. Rao" , Sandipan Das , Kamalesh Babulal , Jiri Olsa , Ravi Bangoria , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.4 094/113] perf probe powerpc: Ignore SyS symbols irrespective of endianness Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:31:35 +0200 Message-Id: <20181008175536.450728593@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181008175530.864641368@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181008175530.864641368@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sandipan Das [ 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 Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Ravi Bangoria 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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) {