linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf, powerpc: Allow perf test to handle PowerPC symbol naming

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Message-Id: <1291956070-sup-549@au1.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:47:54 +1100
From:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"tom.leiming" <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf, powerpc: Allow perf test to handle PowerPC symbol naming

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@....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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