linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf symbol: Do not fixup end address of labels

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Message-ID: <172737172354.3854998.16269602769912786358.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:28:57 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf symbol: Do not fixup end address of labels

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:42:08 -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> When it loads symbols from an ELF file, it loads label symbols which is
> 0 size.  Sometimes it has the same address with other symbols and might
> shadow the original symbols because it fixes up the size of the symbol.
> 
> For example, in my system __do_softirq is shadowed and only accepts the
> __softirqentry_text_start instead.  But it should accept __do_softirq.
> 
> [...]

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung