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Subject: [PATCH 4.4 094/113] perf probe powerpc: Ignore SyS symbols irrespective of endianness
Date:   Mon,  8 Oct 2018 20:31:35 +0200
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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>

[ 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
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@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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
@@ -27,15 +27,16 @@ void arch__elf_sym_adjust(GElf_Sym *sym)
 #endif
 #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))
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ 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)
 {