Re: [v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 10:23:04 EST


On Mon, 2016-25-04 at 21:56:14 UTC, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> In the ppc64 big endian ABI, function symbols point to function
> descriptors. The symbols which point to the function entry points
> have a dot in front of the function name. Consequently, when the
> ftrace filter mechanism searches for the symbol corresponding to
> an entry point address, it gets the dot symbol.
...
>
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7132e2d669bd42c3783327f301

cheers