Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf, powerpc: Allow perf test to handle PowerPC symbol naming | | From | Ian Munsie <> | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:47:54 +1100 |
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Hi Paul,
Can you take a look at this patch and ACK (or NACK) it and push it to Ingo? The two other patches in this series are already in tip/perf/core, we're just missing this one.
Cheers, -Ian
Excerpts from Ian Munsie's message of Thu Nov 25 15:12:55 +1100 2010: > From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> > > The PowerPC ABI prefixes symbol names with periods, which causes perf > test to fail when it compares the symbol from the vmlinux file with the > symbol names from kallsyms. This patch adds the infrastructure to allow > archs to override how symbol names are compared and implements the > PowerPC function to disregard any prefixed periods, allowing perf test > to pass.
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