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Commit 0b3c2264 authored by Naveen N. Rao's avatar Naveen N. Rao Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf symbols: Fix kallsyms perf test on ppc64le



ppc64le functions have a Global Entry Point (GEP) and a Local Entry
Point (LEP). While placing a probe, we always prefer the LEP since it
catches function calls through both the GEP and the LEP. In order to do
this, we fixup the function entry points during elf symbol table lookup
to point to the LEPs. This works, but breaks 'perf test kallsyms' since
the symbols loaded from the symbol table (pointing to the LEP) do not
match the symbols in kallsyms.

To fix this, we do not adjust all the symbols during symbol table load.
Instead, we note down st_other in a newly introduced arch-specific
member of perf symbol structure, and later use this to adjust the probe
trace point.

Reported-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6be7c2b17e370100c2f79dd444509df7929bdd3e.1460451721.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 239aeba7
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