Fix up various perf aspects related to ppc64's usage of dot functions: - ignore leading '.' when generating event names and when looking for existing events. - use the proper prefix when ignoring SyS symbol lookups.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 8 ++++++++ tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index c7e01ef..d465f7c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -2080,6 +2080,10 @@ static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, size_t len, const char *base, { int i, ret; + /* Skip the leading dot on powerpc */ + if (*base == '.') + base++; + /* Try no suffix */ ret = e_snprintf(buf, len, "%s", base); if (ret < 0) { @@ -2538,6 +2542,10 @@ int del_perf_probe_events(struct strlist *dellist) event = str; } + /* Skip the leading dot on powerpc */ + if (event && *event == '.') + event++; + ret = e_snprintf(buf, 128, "%s:%s", group, event); if (ret < 0) { pr_err("Failed to copy event."); diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index 0783311..cc04475 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ static int choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb) if (na >= 10 && !strncmp(syma->name, "compat_SyS", 10)) return SYMBOL_B; + /* On powerpc, ignore the dot variants */ + if (na >= 4 && !strncmp(syma->name, ".SyS", 4)) + return SYMBOL_B; + if (na >= 11 && !strncmp(syma->name, ".compat_SyS", 11)) + return SYMBOL_B; + return SYMBOL_A; } -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/