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SubjectRe: [PATCH 9/9] perf tests: Use arch__compare_symbol_names to compare symbols
Em Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:18:51PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 01:26:35PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > The symbol search called by machine__find_kernel_symbol_by_name
> > > is using internally arch__compare_symbol_names function to compare
> > > 2 symbol names, because different archs have different ways of
> > > comparing symbols. Mostly for skipping '.' prefixes and similar.
> > >
> > > In test 1 when we try to find matching symbols in kallsyms and
> > > vmlinux, by address and by symbol name. When either is found
> > > we compare the pair symbol names by simple strcmp, which is not
> > > good enough for reasons explained in previous paragraph.
> > >
> > > On powerpc this can cause lockup, because even thought we found
> > > the pair, the compared names are different and don't match
> > > simple strcmp. Following code path is executed, that leads
> > > to lockup:
> >
> > Added a:
> >
> > Fixes: 031b84c407c3 ("perf probe ppc: Enable matching against dot symbols automatically")
> >
> > And CCed Naveen, the author of that patch, so that gets notified of this
> > fix.
>
> Thanks! This does fix the test on ppc64 BE. So:
> Acked-and-Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks!

- Arnaldo


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