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perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on ARM 

ARM ELF files use symbols with special names $a, $t, $d to identify regions of
ARM code, Thumb code and data within code sections.  This can cause confusing
output from the perf tools, especially for partially stripped binaries, or
binaries containing user-added zero-sized symbols (which may occur in
hand-written assembler which hasn't been fully annotated with .size
directives).

This patch filters out these symbols at load time.

LKML-Reference: <1281352878-8735-2-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Dave Martin 2010-08-09 12:21:18 +01:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent b1b0267336
commit 696b97a5d2
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tools/perf/util/symbol.c
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@ -1079,6 +1079,16 @@ static int dso__load_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map, const char *name,
if (!is_label && !elf_sym__is_a(&sym, map->type))
continue;
/* Reject ARM ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and
* don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile
* output: */
if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) {
if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$a") ||
!strcmp(elf_name, "$d") ||
!strcmp(elf_name, "$t"))
continue;
}
if (opdsec && sym.st_shndx == opdidx) {
u32 offset = sym.st_value - opdshdr.sh_addr;
u64 *opd = opddata->d_buf + offset;