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authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-04-28 12:05:37 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-04 15:43:44 (GMT)
commit031b84c407c3153ffbcb4f8f832edf48af988719 (patch)
treee411fca2e84dee0c112fd6d7b498a559d696d0b9 /tools/perf/util/symbol.c
parentfb6d59423115b10125f5db6acb8471f6f0af4ad7 (diff)
downloadlinux-031b84c407c3153ffbcb4f8f832edf48af988719.tar.xz
perf probe ppc: Enable matching against dot symbols automatically
Allow perf probe to work on ppc ABIv1 without the need to specify the leading dot '.' for functions. 'perf probe do_fork' works with this patch. We do this by changing how symbol name comparison works on ppc ABIv1 - we simply ignore and skip over the initial dot, if one exists, during symbol name comparison. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/652a8f3bfa919bd02a1836a128370eaed59b4a34.1430217967.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/symbol.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index f805757..45ba48a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static struct symbol *symbols__find_by_name(struct rb_root *symbols,
int cmp;
s = rb_entry(n, struct symbol_name_rb_node, rb_node);
- cmp = strcmp(name, s->sym.name);
+ cmp = arch__compare_symbol_names(name, s->sym.name);
if (cmp < 0)
n = n->rb_left;
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static struct symbol *symbols__find_by_name(struct rb_root *symbols,
struct symbol_name_rb_node *tmp;
tmp = rb_entry(n, struct symbol_name_rb_node, rb_node);
- if (strcmp(tmp->sym.name, s->sym.name))
+ if (arch__compare_symbol_names(tmp->sym.name, s->sym.name))
break;
s = tmp;