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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-01-15 18:08:27 -0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-16 10:58:50 +0100
commit881516eb828a3f7276c378bcef96b7788fc99016 (patch)
treee0fc433a53dc610f51eeb1b9130e3b745575a25e /tools
parentf5a2c3dce03621b55f84496f58adc2d1a87ca16f (diff)
downloadlinux-881516eb828a3f7276c378bcef96b7788fc99016.tar.bz2
perf symbols: Accept an alias when looking for "_text"
As it is in PARISC64: parisc:~# uname -a Linux parisc 2.6.33-rc4-tip+ #1 SMP Thu Jan 14 13:33:34 BRST 2010 parisc64 GNU/Linux parisc:~# grep -w _text /proc/kallsyms 0000000040100000 A _text parisc:~# grep 0000000040100000 /proc/kallsyms 0000000040100000 T stext 0000000040100000 T _stext 0000000040100000 A _text parisc:~# Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1263586107-1756-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/event.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 966d207a1509..dc13cad828d7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -227,7 +227,12 @@ static int find_symbol_cb(void *arg, const char *name, char type, u64 start)
{
struct process_symbol_args *args = arg;
- if (!symbol_type__is_a(type, MAP__FUNCTION) || strcmp(name, args->name))
+ /*
+ * Must be a function or at least an alias, as in PARISC64, where "_text" is
+ * an 'A' to the same address as "_stext".
+ */
+ if (!(symbol_type__is_a(type, MAP__FUNCTION) ||
+ type == 'A') || strcmp(name, args->name))
return 0;
args->start = start;