Commit-ID: 3445432b7b24665cf4693fc4794c62d4d768a978 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3445432b7b24665cf4693fc4794c62d4d768a978 Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:38:49 +0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> CommitDate: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:35:30 -0300
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.hun...@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-6-git-send-email-adrian.hun...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index 02718e7..ea62ecd 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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
