4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fa694160cca6dbba17c57dc7efec5f93feaf8795 ] This makes sure that the SyS symbols are ignored for any powerpc system, not just the big endian ones. Reported-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: fb6d59423115 ("perf probe ppc: Use the right prefix when ignoring SyS symbols on ppc") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828090848.1914-1-sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c @@ -22,15 +22,16 @@ bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr #endif -#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb __maybe_unused) { char *sym = syma->name; +#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 /* Skip over any initial dot */ if (*sym == '.') sym++; +#endif /* Avoid "SyS" kernel syscall aliases */ if (strlen(sym) >= 3 && !strncmp(sym, "SyS", 3)) @@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symb return SYMBOL_A; } +#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2 /* Allow matching against dot variants */ int arch__compare_symbol_names(const char *namea, const char *nameb) {