This is looking for '[vdso]', '[vsyscall]' or similar to
force the "kernel" boolean arg to __symbols__insert() to
false.
But such things never show up in kallsyms.
This check was added by commit 608c34de0b3d ("perf symbols: Mark if a
symbol is idle in the library")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index d188b7588152..345d66d745d1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ static int map__process_kallsym_symbol(void *arg, const
char *name,
* We will pass the symbols to the filter later, in
* map__split_kallsyms, when we have split the maps per module
*/
- __symbols__insert(root, sym, !strchr(name, '['));
+ __symbols__insert(root, sym, true);
return 0;
}
--
2.19.1
