Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756258Ab0LJEsF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:48:05 -0500 Received: from e23smtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.146]:37228 "EHLO e23smtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756220Ab0LJEsC (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:48:02 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-kernel , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , "tom.leiming" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf, powerpc: Allow perf test to handle PowerPC symbol naming From: Ian Munsie To: Paul Mackerras In-reply-to: <1290658375-10342-3-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> References: <1290658375-10342-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> <1290658375-10342-3-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:47:54 +1100 Message-Id: <1291956070-sup-549@au1.ibm.com> User-Agent: Sup/0.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 23 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 > > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/