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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 1/2] perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on aarch64
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:34:01PM -0800, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> 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.kamensky@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung


> ---
> 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
>
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