From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:08:27 +0000 (-0200) Subject: perf symbols: Accept an alias when looking for "_text" X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=881516eb828a3f7276c378bcef96b7788fc99016;p=linux-beck.git 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 Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1263586107-1756-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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;