Aarch64 ELF files use mapping symbols with special names $x, $d to identify regions of Aarch64 code (see Aarch64 ELF ABI - "ARM IHI 0056B", section "4.5.4 Mapping symbols").
The patch filters out these symbols at load time, similar to "696b97a perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on ARM" changes done for ARM before V8. Also added handling of mapping symbols that has format "$d.<any>" and similar for both cases. Note we are not making difference between EM_ARM and EM_AARCH64 mapping symbols instead code handles superset of both. Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamen...@linaro.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <a...@cloudius-systems.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com> --- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index 06fcd1b..8fc6e2f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -856,10 +856,9 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, /* Reject ARM ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile * output: */ - if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) { - if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$a") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$d") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$t")) + if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM || ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64) { + if (elf_name[0] == '$' && strchr("adtx", elf_name[1]) + && (elf_name[2] == '\0' || elf_name[2] == '.')) continue; } -- 1.9.3 -- 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/