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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2013-08-07 14:38:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-08-07 17:35:30 -0300 |
| commit | 3445432b7b24665cf4693fc4794c62d4d768a978 (patch) | |
| tree | 87160a25bde7232cb4b201b099919348e84a5320 /tools | |
| parent | 2bbf03f16a634f675c49c473b2b6528571990aea (diff) | |
| download | gpt-3445432b7b24665cf4693fc4794c62d4d768a978.tar.gz | |
perf symbols: avoid SyS kernel syscall aliases
When removing duplicate symbols, prefer to remove syscall aliases
starting with SyS or compat_SyS.
A side-effect of that is that it results in slightly improved results
for the "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" test.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-6-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index 02718e728d59f9..ea62ecd191fa33 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static int choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb) { s64 a; s64 b; + size_t na, nb; /* Prefer a symbol with non zero length */ a = syma->end - syma->start; @@ -120,11 +121,21 @@ static int choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb) else if (a > b) return SYMBOL_B; - /* If all else fails, choose the symbol with the longest name */ - if (strlen(syma->name) >= strlen(symb->name)) + /* Choose the symbol with the longest name */ + na = strlen(syma->name); + nb = strlen(symb->name); + if (na > nb) return SYMBOL_A; - else + else if (na < nb) + return SYMBOL_B; + + /* Avoid "SyS" kernel syscall aliases */ + if (na >= 3 && !strncmp(syma->name, "SyS", 3)) return SYMBOL_B; + if (na >= 10 && !strncmp(syma->name, "compat_SyS", 10)) + return SYMBOL_B; + + return SYMBOL_A; } void symbols__fixup_duplicate(struct rb_root *symbols) |