linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 12/13] perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 22:30:44 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Mark Wielaard <mjw@...hat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 12/13] perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup


Adjusting symbols is not needed if we are searching by name.
Infact if we adjust and search symbols by name, we get incorrect
results.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index c458c4a..7267050 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -958,12 +958,14 @@ static int dso__load_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map, const char *name,
 	nr_syms = shdr.sh_size / shdr.sh_entsize;
 
 	memset(&sym, 0, sizeof(sym));
-	if (!self->kernel) {
+	if (self->kernel || symbol_conf.sort_by_name)
+		self->adjust_symbols = 0;
+	else {
 		self->adjust_symbols = (ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC ||
 				elf_section_by_name(elf, &ehdr, &shdr,
 						     ".gnu.prelink_undo",
 						     NULL) != NULL);
-	} else self->adjust_symbols = 0;
+	}
 
 	elf_symtab__for_each_symbol(syms, nr_syms, idx, sym) {
 		struct symbol *f;
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