On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 23:04 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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++;
I'll defer to the perf guys, but I think you want these abstracted in an
architecture specific helper.
> 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;
And possibly this too.
cheers
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